The Confederacy built a lasting myth of victory out of defeat. Trump and his followers may, too.
By David W. Blight
Mr. Blight is a professor of American history, and the author of “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” and “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.”
Jan. 9, 2021
Confederate veterans at a reunion in Washington in 1917.Credit.Harris & Ewing, via Alamy
One hundred and fifty years after the emergence of the Confederate Lost Cause ideology, a new Lost Cause invaded the U.S. Capitol with the incitement of the president of the United States. Waving American, Confederate, Gadsden and, especially, Trump flags, Donald Trump’s loyalists desecrated the greatest symbolic edifice of America.
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