வழக்குரைஞர் ஜநரல் பெஞ்சமின் News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

What Joe Biden can learn from Ulysses S. Grant
Ryan Cooper
© Illustrated | Getty Images, iStock, Library of Congress
Joe Biden and Ulysses Grant.
The nation has been transfixed by the attempted putsch carried out by pro-Trump fascists Wednesday. Many stunned commentators, believing in some form of American exceptionalism, reached for comparisons to other, supposedly-backward countries to describe what happened. This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic, said former President George W. Bush.
Yet this is not the first time that an American government has faced an epidemic of right-wing terrorism threatening the very foundation of democracy. The same thing happened during Reconstruction after the Civil War, when President Ulysses S. Grant faced a white supremacist insurrection in the South led by the first Ku Klux Klan. Congress gave Grant sweeping powers to put down the insurrectionists, and together with Attorney Genera ....

South Carolina , United States , New York , New Hampshire , Eric Foner , Jamelle Bouie , Roberte Lee , Georgew Bush , Benjaminh Bristow , Joe Biden , Ku Klux Klan , James Hinds , Rutherfordb Hayes , Amost Akerman , Ulyssess Grant , Department Of Justice , Republican Party , Congress Rep , Library Of Congress Joe Biden , White League , Getty Images , Congress Joe Biden , President George , Civil War , President Ulysses , Attorney General Amos ,