Thomas Nast’s Thanksgiving Vision of American Identity
It comes not from common blood but from common conviction.
by Daniel Fried
Nov 22, 2018
2 minutes
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Nativism has a long history in the United States, and it remains with us still. The 19th-century southern politician John C. Calhoun that “all men are created equal” was not meant literally, and that America was a country of and for white men. Today, fearmongering about immigrants, attacks on the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright citizenship, and sly verbal nods to white nationalism—all part of the president’s rhetorical menu—suggest
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