Unfortunately, the people attacking the monuments don't distinguish between the Confederates & the Union. And their intellectual leaders are hellbent on discrediting Lincoln, Grant, & their ideas.https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1275253935897542656 …
The political conditions in which it would be possible to create a grand bargain that distinguishes the two do not exist.
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Ergo, I will persistently mislead about the distinction to benefit Mr. Trump despite my professed disapproval of him.
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In small part because writers like you won’t even propose it. In fact, everybody but a small handful of people left of center would support it. You think rightwing gun nuts intimidating legislatures represent hardly anybody, but people who pull down statues are a mass movement.
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You’re abdicating taking a position that your colleagues like Klein and French have. Yet somebody steeped in US history like you are might have some influence here—at least as much as a political writer ever has.
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