Rick Santorum is backing away from the campaign slogan featured on the website for his exploratory committee, “Fighting to Make America America again,” after it was pointed out to him that it was first made famous in a pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes.ThinkProgress first pointed out Thursday that the line on the website homepage is from Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again”:
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