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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Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but I for one am not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America.
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Sounds like a plan that 85% of the country would go along with. Just gotta convince your side about the part about “not celebrating the confederacy.”
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We shouldn’t celebrate the Confederacy but the war between the states is part of who we are. Also, Confederate soldiers were more than just people that fought for slavery. They had lives and many had done honorable things during their lives.
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But you can’t leave the monuments be; they are public honorifics to the leaders of the slaveocracy and they continue to be unless they are eliminated. That’s the break point—yes, “all these years later” (and given so many were way past postbellum defenses of Jim Crow), it’s time.
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Any monuments built from the 60s onward should be high on the list to go, as they were likely "screw you" memorials. The older ones should be discussed. Or restored, and then discussed.
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The South lost. Their cause was a bad one. You don't get statues and military bases when you lose. There's no crying in baseball.
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