Republican Voters Turned Into Idiots by Republican Leadership: 'Federal Government Played No Role In Freeing The Slaves' — Latest Fake 'History' Lesson

Memorial to Scottish-American Soldiers of the
American Civil War. (Photo by dun_deagh)

By Brian Tashman
Heritage Foundation head Jim DeMint appeared on Vocal Point with Jerry Newcombe of Truth In Action Ministries last week, where he insisted that “no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves.”

DeMint, a former US senator from South Carolina, told Newcombe that “the conscience of the American people” and not the federal government was responsible for the end of slavery.

In the interview, DeMint seemed to confuse the US Constitution with the Declaration of Independence and implied that William Wilberforce, a British politician who died almost thirty years before the Civil War, did more to end American slavery than the federal government.

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