Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto President Harding (a resident of the Federal enclave of Ohio) pardons Eugene V. Debs, perennial presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, for violating the Espionage and Sedition Acts.

       Question: Harding became president the previous March, why did he allow Debs (whose health was deteriorating) to rot in prison another ten-months?  Was he trying to to play Santa Claus?

       [restored 6/20/2022]

       Because he wanted the Santa Clause effect.  Remember FDR’s, “Nothing happens in politics by accident.” —- JL

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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 303.

Eugene V. Debs – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Incarceration

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