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No republican today would endorse that speech. But they certainly would endorse the speech where Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said, "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition."

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Absolutely right.

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They might, Goebbels was good at saying the opposite of what was meant. Sort of like those “voter integrity” laws passed all around. And ALEC made sure that they were passed in as many states as possible.

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