Rule 1: No conservative politician is allowed to say anything, however historical or academic, about race. If he touches on the subject, even tangentially, he will be howled down as a bigot.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton had evidently forgotten this law of politics when he declared, accurately enough, that the Founding Fathers had viewed slavery as a “necessary evil,” and note that, despite some reports, he was describing their views, not his own.
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