What Trump Shares With the âLost Causeâ of the Confederacy
It is hard to miss the parallels between now and then of rewriting history and campaigns of disinformation.
By Karen L. Cox
Dr. Cox is the author of the forthcoming book âNo Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice.â
Jan. 8, 2021
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Wednesday morning, President Trump urged a crowd of supporters who showed up in Washington, D.C., to âwalk down to the Capitolâ and protest the certification of the election taking place nearby on Pennsylvania Avenue. A few hours later, he stood in the White House Rose Garden to deliver a different message after members of this same group â who carried flags bearing his name â stormed the Capitol, brawled with Capitol Police and breached both chambers of Congress. Mr. Trump repeated false claims about election fraud but told them: âYou have to go home now. We have to have peac
On Wednesday, supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to stop the counting of votes for the electoral college. Where do we go from here? We sit down with reporters and analysts and get their reaction.
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Dec 28, 2020
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Over 100 busts, statues, columns, and other memorials to the Confederacy and Confederate general and politicians have been removed around the country. Some were unlawfully torn down, defaced, or damaged by mobs. Others have been removed officially by state and local governments. A statue of Robert E. Lee was recently removed from the U.S. Capitol building’s National Statuary Hall, where each state is invited to present statues of two notable persons from the state.
The Senate has passed a bill that would change the names of military bases (mostly Army installations) like Ft Bragg, Ft Hood, and Ft Benning, each named after Confederate generals. A poll in June conducted by ABC News and Ipsos found public opinion was firmly (56 percent) on the side of not making name changes. Yet, two-thirds of black Americans favored these bases being renamed.
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