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Salon
Salon
Politics
Matthew Rozsa

THE TRUTH ABOUT: The election the founding fathers wanted - Caught on Camera

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills got the obvious out of the way when asked about what America's founding fathers would have thought of the presidential election between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. "Since women had no political position in the eighteenth century, I could not place this debate there," Wills told Salon.

Indeed. America's founding fathers operated in a strictly white supremacist, patriarchal world and therefore would have opposed Harris' campaign simply because she is a Black woman of Indian descent. Her marriage to a Jewish man would not have helped.

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