Opinion | How Trumpism May Endure
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. Wa...
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