Some useful reminders here about Grant, who was long hated by the Dunning School; the Dunning school's enemies are now the woke mob's enemies. My 2-parter on his heroic but flawed presidency: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/rethinking-president-ulysses-grant-stature-rising/ … https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/ulysses-grant-presidency-economy-corruption-foreign-policy/ …https://twitter.com/powellnyt/status/1274351895151329288 …
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In 1872, there was what we'd call today a Never Grant movement. Longtime Republicans such as Horace Greeley & Charles Sumner defected to join the anti-Reconstruction Democrats, over a variety of grievances. Frederick Douglass broke with his old friends to stand with Grant & GOP.
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Grant also, over time, rethought some of his ideas about Jews & immigrants.https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/status/1274365561389092866 …
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