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| Joker:9757 | BrentinCO ( 7748.48 points) | June 29, 2022 07:38pm |
Hmmr. Hikikkomori and EPub endorsed the same candidate. Okay I have some reading to do on Borah.
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Borah is literally the biggest enigma in US Politics.
Teddy Roosevelt described him as “an insurgent whose chief talent was to insurge” and that was 100% accurate. ESPECIALLY in regards to US Foreign Policy.
Granted there's a lot more I learned after putting the endorsement that makes him more grey to me, but overall he's pretty good.
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| Joker:9757 | BrentinCO ( 7748.48 points) | June 29, 2022 08:44pm |
The Lion of Idaho
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Good outline. Interesting background. Seems like my kind of Republican. Not blindly partisan. And in fairness he was a little flawed.
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I'm not gonna say I liked everything he did, but it seemed like he had good intentions and wasn't malicious in his thinking.
Like his League of Nations position was probably shortsighted, but he had a point in calling out how these types of alliances did cause WW1.
The most controversial stance seemed to be him naively thinking he could stop the 2nd World War by going soft on Hitler. But if I thought he had ill intentions: The Endorsement would be gone
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| WmP:879 | Chronicler ( 84.45 points) | June 30, 2022 11:32am |
Borah didn't support Hoover before the 1928 Republican convention because Hoover had questions about prohibition. Borah sent around a questionnaire to various contenders, and the other Republicans who replied were "bone dry" on alcohol. When Hoover recommended that Congress pass the proposed 21st Amendment in late 1932, Borah opposed the idea, and when the bill came to a vote on the floor of the Senate in 2/1933, Borah stood with the "bone drys" and voted against repeal.
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