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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 23

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Julian Davis Mortenson

      1. 1st big surge in reverence for the Founders comes from the mid-1820s to the late 1860s, as their generation died out & the country contested the meaning of their legacy. Washington Monument begun in 1848. Lots of places named for the Founders - Washington territory in 1853.https://twitter.com/jdmortenson/status/1374119144610791424 …

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      Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson
      Replying to @Vermeullarmine @PatrickDeneen
      most interesting! This is now a cf on a cf, but I suddenly wonder how much (if at all) the rise of founding fatherism tracks the rise of confederate general hagiography. You could imagine various stories about that, some boring, others possibly interesting.
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 23

      2. As my response last night @NRO noted, Lincoln was a great proponent of both reverence for the Founders & original meaning of the Constitution. So was Andrew Jackson, who was a Southerner but a Union man to his bones.https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/american-history-deserves-better-than-a-google-word-search/ …

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 23

      3. The Jacksonians & the antislavery constitutionalists had quite different visions of what the Founding meant, but they agreed that it was central to both the American story & the continuing meaning of the Constitution. The surviving Jacksonians mostly remained loyal Union men.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 23

      4. The timeline of memorialization of the Founders, the Union, the Confederacy, the Greatest Generation - all of these were heavily influenced by the natural timeline of war memorialshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/national-anthem-confederate-flag-besieged-symbols-unserious-time/ …

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 23

      5. That's not to deny that there are also surges from time to time in our historical memory of particular periods & figures, driven by contemporary political needs. But the urge to retcon everything in our history into a narrative of crypto-Confederate mythology is nuts.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 23

          6. As I noted in my Party of Lincoln piece, pro-Founderism has been part of the GOP's DNA from the outset, runs as a consistent through-line connecting Lincoln, Coolidge, Reagan, even Trump.https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/02/22/party-of-lincoln/ …

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 23

          7. There are periods (eg, the 1920s) when both pro-Founding & pro-Confederate sentiment ran hot, but often not with the same people or for the same reasons. Harding & Coolidge were not exactly great mythologizers of the Confederacy.

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