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Former candidate Ramaswamy likens Newsom to George Wallace, drawing parallels between their resistance to federal actions and political ambitions.
Former candidate Ramaswamy likens Newsom to George Wallace, drawing parallels between their resistance to federal actions and political ambitions.
Wallace, in addition to his infamous stand in the schoolhouse door, promised Alabamians “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” in his 1963 inaugural address.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s comparison of Gavin Newsom to George Wallace is ludicrous. Like his lionization of Richard Nixon, it betrays an ignorance of history, and some moral blindness as well.
That hot summer day began with then-Gov. George C. Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,” a symbolic protest of the admittance of Black students at the University of Alabama.
It was not a solemn event. It was a performance of complete lunacy, one of the worst things that campus has seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door back in 1963.
But then I started thinking about Wallace “standing in the schoolhouse door” to keep Black students out of the University of Alabama.
George Wallace is pictured in October 1968. Wallace won Hamilton County in the presidential election that year, becoming the last non-Republican to date to do so. (AP Photo) ...
News about George C Wallace. Commentary and archival information about George C Wallace from The New York Times.
No DEI forever!” - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is channeling George Wallace by her stand in the schoolhouse door, blocking diversity, equity and inclusion programs. DEI ain’t the devil, y’all.
In 2023, a new generation of George Wallace Democrats is again blocking schoolhouse doors, opposing popular school choice programs," the ad says.
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