As the Biden administration ‘speeds up’ efforts to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, many conservatives are celebrating the swap. The founder of the Democrat Party replaced by a gun-toting Republican? The libs get owned again, these Republicans muse.
But if the Tubman twenty is such a win for conservatives, why does the Left seem uniformly to support it? ‘Historical ignorance,’ giggle the giddy conservatives. Fair enough. But then why do some conservatives, this author included, oppose it? Why did the Trump administration halt the switch, and why have the Obama and Biden administrations encouraged it? ‘Racism,’ reply the innovators on the Right and Left, at least implicitly and often explicitly. And therein lies the trap of the Tubman twenty-dollar bill.
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