#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US (Throwback)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date: 11/15/2022
Today, we take a look at our extremely steady history of political violence from the Revolution, through the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, into the Civil Rights era, the Militia Movement and domestic terrorism, and now to our current once-again-radicalized, right-wing movement willing to use and tacitly condone violence as a political tactic.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Capitol Attack Wasn't the 1st Violent Incident in Congress - Inside Edition - Air Date 1-20-22
Ch. 2: A history of US political violence Part 1 - Americast - Air Date 11-2-22
Ch. 4: Political Violence Is No Anomaly in American History - System Check - Air Date 1-8-21
Ch. 5: Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s - The Gray Area with Sean Illing - Air Date 11-7-22
Ch. 8: Paul Pelosi attacked with hammer in his home - ABC News - Air Date 10-29-22
Ch. 9: A history of US political violence Part 2 - Americast - Air Date 11-2-22
Ch. 10: Political Violence - In the Thick - Air Date 11-4-22
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Show Image:
Description: A newspaper cartoon/drawing of Senator Sumner being beaten on the floor of the Senate with a cane by Sen. Preston Brooks in 1856.
Credit: “Southern Chivalry - Argument vs. Clubs” by J.L. Magee, 1856 | Public Domain
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| 0:18.8 | Welcome to this throwback edition of the award winning Best of |
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| 0:25.4 | Today's episode was originally published in November 2022 and I believe that it will be |
| 0:30.8 | abundantly clear why we're playing a history of political violence |
| 0:34.9 | and violent rhetoric from the very beginning and through the ages right up to and |
| 0:40.1 | including the political movement under Trump. |
| 0:43.4 | Sources today include Inside Edition, |
| 0:45.8 | AmeriCast, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:48.9 | System Check, The Gray Area, ABC News, and in the thick. |
| 0:54.0 | According to the |
| 0:58.0 | According to Yale historian Joanne Freeman, |
| 1:04.0 | Between 1830 and 1860, there were at least 70 violent incidents on the House and Senate floor. |
| 1:11.0 | Guns being pulled, knives being pulled, fist bites, |
| 1:14.9 | brawls, scheming. |
| 1:18.0 | The kinging of Charles Sumner, which happened in 1856, |
| 1:21.4 | is pretty much the most famous violent incident in the US Congress. |
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