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Dapper-Print9016 t1_jaedh7n wrote

Reply to comment by sabbyteur in Marjorie Taylor Greene "attacked" by woman while at restaurant by 10tonheadofwetsand

Didn't Thomas Jefferson run attack campaigns impugning the masculinity of his political opponents? When was this respect thing?

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sabbyteur t1_jaeejoo wrote

LOL I had to look it up quick:

"For the first and last time in U.S. history, a president found himself running against his vice president.

Things got ugly fast. Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.""

https://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/22/mf.campaign.slurs.slogans/

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