Trump's defense of Confederate traitors is more than a culture war - its a subversion of American..

FRIDAY, AUG 18, 2017 05:00 AM EDT

Trump’s defense of Confederate traitors is more than a culture war — it’s a subversion of American democracy

It's no surprise that a traitor would defend traitors

BOB CESCA

There’s something poetic about President Donald Trump defending the treasonous generals who fought for the Confederate States of America. Considering how Trump allegedly conspired with a hostile foreign regime to hijack the 2016 election, we’re essentially observing a traitor defending traitors. If any president knows what it means to conspire to subvert American democracy, it’s Donald Trump.

Early Thursday, Trump dropped a series of tweets directly defending statues dedicated to Confederate commanders Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

-snip- (Trumpty Dumpty's yesterday tweets)

It’s informative to know that our current president believes the only features that successfully beautify our parks and public spaces are the apparently incomparable statues of Confederate generals. Also, I’d wager Trump knows next to nothing about either Jackson or Lee, not to mention other A-list Confederates such as P.G.T. Beauregard, James Longstreet, A.P. Hill or any of the other secessionists he’s defending.

Trump has illustrated with shocking clarity how important it is for Americans to learn the whole story — the true story — of the American Civil War, a story that absolutely includes a lengthy discussion of rebel soldiers from the ranks on up. While many Confederate infantrymen had their pet reasons for fighting, make no mistake: the defining goal of secession and firing upon Fort Sumter was to defend the perceived rights of the Southern states to retain slave labor as the driver of its economy. But it’s a toxic storm of racism and the absence of education about factors and motives of this harrowing chapter of American history that’s led us to this tragically frustrating time and place in which the sitting president is actively flacking for Nazis, white supremacists, KKK members and, yes, Confederates.

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