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NYT columnist exposes glaring flaw in Marco Rubio's history lecture
What happened
According to AlterNet, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie argued that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s October 7 speech in Greece celebrated democratic values through a distorted history while ignoring the Trump administration’s rejection of those same principles. Rubio praised ancient Greece as the foundation of Western thought and complained that nationalism had become “a dirty word” as monuments were removed.
Bouie challenged Rubio’s account on several fronts. He noted that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton distrusted direct democracy, that scholars in the Muslim world…
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