Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (34 page)

If you’re actively involved in a Republican or conservative group, you can also organize your own campaign to reach independent voters. How? The names and addresses of these voters is known. The RNC and various political PACs and groups have their contact information. So get it and provide the information that will help these voters make an intelligent choice.

Where will that information come from? You can generate your own, but for my part, I am putting my best “messaging” at your disposal. The Hillary movie accompanying this book will come out in DVD/Home Box Office a month before the election. That is a critical time. Your group can purchase DVDs at a reasonable price and drop them into the mailboxes of independent voters in Florida, Ohio, Colorado, and the other swing states that will very likely decide this election.

This is called using your influence. It is a creative, targeted, and lethal way to make a difference. This is how you become a Very Dangerous American. It doesn’t cost a lot of money, because books and DVDs just cost a few bucks apiece. Of course there may be other ways to strike, but here I am giving you the one that brings our forces together.

You have more influence than you realize. Today with Facebook and Twitter and even email, we can reach large numbers of people for free. We can build networks and disseminate information as if each of us was an individual publisher. Even if you’re technologically challenged, the new technology is actually no more difficult than turning on the TV
and using the microwave oven, once you get used to it. So get used to it, and expand your influence.

Lincoln once said that America is ruled by public opinion. He did not mean by this that America is ruled by the opinions of the public. The ordinary American doesn’t care very much about politics. He or she votes every two or four years, typically if it isn’t raining. This voter is “undecided,” not because of a divided mind, but because he doesn’t know what’s going on.

What shapes the mind of these voters is the creativity and enthusiasm and involvement of the people who do know what’s going on. That’s you. If you’re a party delegate, or a blogger, or actively involved in a political group, you are part of the smaller subset of hands-on Americans who actually shape the course of events. I estimate that group to be two to five million people, far fewer than the hundred million who will vote in November. You should be one of those people.

Through your active involvement—not just in the election but also after—you can set the goal posts for American politics. This is how, in Lincoln’s sense, you become one of the rulers of America. Democratic self-government is achieved by the citizens who choose to participate on a regular basis in the formation of the rules that shape our society.

Don’t be discouraged; we have far more power than we realize. Years ago a professor of mine told me the story about the lion tamer and the lion. So there’s the lion, and there’s the lion tamer, a little guy with a stick. Yet every time the lion tamer gesticulates, the lion responds. The lion is following the dictates of the lion tamer.

But here my professor raised a provocative question: Who’s more powerful, the lion tamer or the lion? Obviously it is the lion. Now, however, we have a puzzle. If the lion is more powerful, why does the lion so obediently and sycophantically obey the instructions of the lion tamer? The answer, of course, is that the lion doesn’t know its own power. The lion thinks the lion tamer is more powerful.

In the same way, we sometimes feel hopeless because we are just citizens and the people in Washington—or in the White House—have all the power. But in reality it is not so. In democratic politics, at least at
election time, we are the ones who have the power. Their scams cannot go through without our consent. So let’s remember that we are the lion, and if only we recognize our power, and use it, we can help, in this desperate time, to put the Democratic lion tamers out of business.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I
want to thank Kimberly Dvorak for her research support and editorial suggestions. She’s thorough, reliable, and a joy to work with. Aaron and Sonia Brubaker are always there for me, getting it done, in some cases even before I realize it needs to be done. I want to thank our entire film team, especially producer Jerry Molen, whose life and character are a reminder of what we’re fighting for. My longtime editor Harry Crocker helped shape this project and kept my arguments on course, even though some of them initially confounded him. My friend and co-conspirator Bruce Schooley provided indispensable counsel, both for this book and the accompanying film, which reflect his influence at every stage. Danielle, my daughter, is a constant inspiration and perennial sounding board; soon she’ll be out of college and giving me a run for my money. And to my wife Debbie—thanks, honey, for all your help, encouragement, and love. You are my highly competent “happiness manager,” and have brought so much joy into my life.

NOTES

CHAPTER 1

1
.
      
John Milton,
Paradise Lost
, Book 2,
literaturepage.com
.

2
.
      
Markos Moulitsas, “Hillary Clinton: Too Much of a Clinton Democrat?,”
Washington Post
, May 7, 2006.

3
.
      
William Safire, “Blizzard of Lies,”
New York Times
, January 8, 1996; Maureen Dowd, “Obama’s Big Screen Test,”
New York Times
, February 21, 2007.

4
.
      
Cited by David Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
(New York: Free Press, 1996), 24.

5
.
      
Hamilton Jordan, “The First Grifters,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 20, 2001.

6
.
      
James Grimaldi and Rebecca Ballhaus, “Hillary Clinton’s Complex Corporate Ties,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 19, 2015.

7
.
      
Sophie Tatum, “Elizabeth Warren: Donald Trump ‘Built His Campaign on Racism,’” CNN, May 4, 2016; Robert Reich, “Trump: The American Fascist,”
billmoyers.com
, March 11, 2016.

8
.
      
Paul Bedard, “DNC Raises Confederate Flag, Civil War, to Slam Trump,”
Washington Examiner
, February 20, 2016.

9
.
      
Walter Russell Mead, “Andrew Jackson, Revenant,”
American Interest
, January 17, 2016.

10
.
    
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861,
abrahamlincolnonline.org
.

11
.
    
David Catron, “Republicans and Women’s Rights,”
American Spectator
, April 30, 2012,

12
.
    
Jo Freeman, “How ‘Sex’ Got Into Title VII,” first published in
Law and Inequality
, Vol. 9, No. 2, March 1991,
uic.edu
.

13
.
    
See e.g. Matthew Yglesias, “Wrong or Race?,”
Atlantic
, December 24, 2007.

14
.
    
Eugene Rivers, “On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack,”
Boston Review
, February 1, 1992.

15
.
    
Michael Omi and Howard Winant,
Racial Formation in the United States
(New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), 262.

16
.
    
Steve Guest, “Bill Clinton’s Alleged Former Mistress: ‘Hillary Is A Lesbian,’” Daily Caller, February 16, 2016; Gennifer Flowers,
Passion and Betrayal
(Del Mar, CA: Emery Dalton, 1995), 41–42.

17
.
    
Maureen Callahan, “Bill’s Libido Threatens to Derail Hillary—Again,”
New York Post
, February 14, 2015.

18
.
    
Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
, 291.

19
.
    
Peter Schweizer,
Clinton Cash
(New York: HarperCollins, 2015), 5.

CHAPTER 2

1
.
      
Cited by Steve Inskeep,
Jacksonland
(New York: Penguin Press, 2015), 45.

2
.
      
“Haitians Protest Outside Hillary Clinton’s Office Over ‘Billions Stolen’ by Clinton Foundation,” Washington Free Beacon, March 20, 2015; “Clinton Foundation HQ Protested for ‘Missing Money’ in Haiti Recovery,” Washington Free Beacon, January 12, 2015.

3
.
      
Peter Schweizer,
Clinton Cash
(New York: HarperCollins, 2015), 159.

4
.
      
Alana Goodman, “Haiti Fraudster Had Line to Clinton at State Department,” September 2, 2015.

5
.
      
Deborah Sontag, “An Award for Bill Clinton Came with $500,000 for His Foundation,”
New York Times
, May 29, 2015.

6
.
      
Mary Anastasia O’Grady, “The Clinton Foundation and Haiti Contracts,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 8, 2015.

7
.
      
Sarah Westwood, “Clinton Foundation Travels to Haiti Amid Criticisms,”
Washington Examiner
, July 30, 2015.

8
.
      
Kevin Sullivan and Rosalind Helderman, “How the Clintons’ Haiti Development Plans Succeed—and Disappoint,”
Washington Post
, March 20, 2015.

9
.
      
Steve Eder, “Tony Rodham’s Ties Invite Scrutiny for Hillary and Bill Clinton,”
New York Times
, May 10, 2015.

10
.
    
Schweizer,
Clinton Cash
, 189.

11
.
    
PBS, “The Democratic Party,”
pbs.org
.

12
.
    
Dinitia Smith and Nicholas Wade, “DNA Test Finds Evidence of Jefferson Child by Slave,”
New York Times
, November 1, 1998.

13
.
    
Robert Turner, “The Myth of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 11, 2012.

14
.
    
Lucia Stanton, “Sally Hemings,” Thomas Jefferson Foundation,
monticello.org
; Annette Gordon-Reed,
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998);
Annette Gordon-Reed,
The Hemingses of Monticello
(New York: W.W. Norton, 2008); Eric Foner, “The Master and the Mistress,”
New York Times Book Review
, October 3, 2008.

15
.
    
Joyce Milton,
The First Partner
(New York: William Morrow, 1999), 94.

16
.
    
Inskeep,
Jacksonland
, 92, 104.

17
.
    
William McNeill,
Plagues and Peoples
(New York: Anchor Books, 1976).

18
.
    
Thomas Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia
,
xroads.virginia.edu
.

19
.
    
Ralph Lerner,
The Thinking Revolutionary
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 163.

20
.
    
Joseph Ellis,
American Creation
(New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 139.

21
.
    
Thomas Jefferson, message on Indian trade, January 18, 1803; Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Henry Harrison, February 27, 1803.

22
.
    
Sean Wilentz,
Andrew Jackson
(New York: Times Books, 2005), 6.

23
.
    
David Crockett,
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, by Himself
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987), 89–90.

24
.
    
Letter from Andrew Jackson to Rachel, March 28, 1814, in Harriet Owsley et al.,
The Papers of Andrew Jackson
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980), vol. 3, 54; Timothy Horton Ball and Henry Sale Halbert,
The Creek War of 1813 and 1814
(Montgomery: White, Woodruff & Fowler, 1895), 276–77.

25
.
    
Jackson to the Creek Indians, March 23, 1829, in Owsley et al.,
The Papers of Andrew Jackson
, vol. 7, 112–13.

26
.
    
Jon Meacham,
American Lion
(New York: Random House, 2009), xvii.

27
.
    
Inskeep,
Jacksonland
, 205.

28
.
    
Arthur Peronneau Hayne to Jackson, August 5, 1817; in Owsley et al.,
The Papers of Andrew Jackson
, vol. 4, 130–31.

29
.
    
Inskeep,
Jacksonland
, 88–89.

30
.
    
Ibid., 91.

31
.
    
Ibid., 99.

32
.
    
Ibid., 104.

33
.
    
Washington County Court, November 17, 1788; Robert Remini,
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821
(New York: Harper & Row, 1977), vol. I, 15.

34
.
    
Meacham,
American Lion
, 303.

35
.
    
Lewis Cass, “Removal of the Indians,”
North American Review
, January 1830, vol. 30, 75.

36
.
    
Crockett,
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, by Himself
, 205–6.

37
.
    
Worcester v. Georgia
, 31 U.S. 515 (1832).

38
.
    
Inskeep,
Jacksonland
, 294–95.

39
.
    
Manning Marable, “Clarence Thomas and the Crisis of Black Political Culture,” in Toni Morrison, ed.,
Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 82; “Backlash against Sowell,”
Business Week
, November 30, 1981, 119; “Final Cut: Spike Lee and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Rap on Race, Politics and Black Cinema,”
Transition
, Issue 52 (1991), 185.

40
.
    
Inskeep,
Jacksonland
, 323.

CHAPTER 3

1
.
      
Abraham Lincoln, “Fragment on Labor, 1847, in Mario Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds.,
Lincoln on Democracy
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 32.

2
.
      
Michael Warren, “Hotel Denies Hillary’s Claim of Employing Illegal Immigrants,” Weekly Standard, November 25, 2014.

3
.
      
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “What This Cruel War Was Over,”
Atlantic
, June 22, 2015.

4
.
      
Cited by Manisha Sinha,
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 191.

5
.
      
John Hope Franklin, “The Moral Legacy of the Founding Fathers,”
University of Chicago Magazine
, Summer 1975, 10–13; Dennis Farney, “As America Triumphs, Americans Are Awash in Doubt,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 27, 1992, A-1; Bill Bradley, statement before the town hall of Los Angeles on March 23, 1992, reprinted in “The Real Lesson of L.A.,”
Harper’s
, July 1992, 10; Thurgood Marshall, address to the San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Association, May 6, 1987.

6
.
      
Thomas Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia
,
xroads.virginia.edu
.

7
.
      
Jon Meacham,
American Lion
(New York: Random House, 2009), 305.

8
.
      
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Henri Gregoire, February 25, 1809.

9
.
      
Frederick Douglass, “Address for the Promotion of Colored Enlistments,” July 6, 1863.

10
.
    
Mary Boykin Chesnut,
Diary from Dixie
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 172, 184, 244.

11
.
    
Cited by James McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 196; Drew Gilpin Faust,
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1982), 176.

12
.
    
McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom
, 56.

13
.
    
Ibid., 196.

14
.
    
Clyde Wilson, ed.,
The Essential Calhoun
(New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992), xxi, xxv, 396, 404; see also Paul Finkelman,
Defending Slavery
(New York: St Martin’s Press, 2003), 54–60; Jerry Tarver, “John C. Calhoun’s Rhetorical Method in Defense of Slavery,” in Waldo Braden, ed.,
Oratory in the Old South
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970), 169–89.

15
.
    
Eugene Genovese,
The World the Slaveholders Made
(Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1988), 131.

16
.
    
Dred Scott v. Sandford
, 60 U.S. 393 (1857).

17
.
    
McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom
, 19.

18
.
    
Harold Holzer, ed.,
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
(New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 151–52.

19
.
    
Harry Jaffa,
Crisis of the House Divided
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

20
.
    
Cuomo and Holzer, eds.,
Lincoln on Democracy
, 3, 90, 120, 129, 131, 136, 207, 151, 316, 328.

21
.
    
William Gienapp, “The Crime against Sumner,”
Civil War History
, September 1979, 218–45.

22
.
    
Cited by Sinha,
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
, 229.

CHAPTER 4

1
.
      
Melissah Yang, “Hillary Clinton’s Graduation Speech at Wellesley College Was Inspiring in 1969 & Her Words Still Hold True Now,”
Bustle.com
, April 14, 2015; Emma Roller, “What’s Changed Since Hillary Clinton’s 1960 Graduation Speech—and What Hasn’t,”
National Journal
, April 21, 2014.

2
.
      
Frederick Douglass, “The Destiny of Colored Americans,”
North Star
, November 16, 1849.

3
.
      
Eric Foner,
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
(New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 26.

4
.
      
Cited by Bruce Bartlett, “Whitewash,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 24, 2007.