Booker, Trumpism, and neo-Confederate Rand Paul

[TexasTowelie]

Today's Trumplican party is a throwback to the 1860s, with Rand Paul as example. Can Charles Booker overcome both Trumpism and Paul to win in 2022?


The Civil War's outcome was still in doubt in July, 1864. But President Abraham Lincoln got some welcome news from the battlefield.

Gen. William T. Sherman's army had twice whipped Confederate forces on the outskirts of strategic Atlanta (which Sherman would capture in early September).

The Republican Party of "Lincoln and Liberty" led the Union to victory over the Confederacy, which had been founded on the twin pillars of slavery and white supremacy. The Republicans also championed constitutional amendments that ended slavery, made African Americans citizens, and extended the vote to Black men.

But 100 Julys after Sherman’s twin triumphs, the GOP started turning Confederate gray. That's according to Heather Cox Richardson’s book, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America.

Read more: https://forwardky.com/booker-trumpism-and-neo-confederate-rand-paul/

[raging moderate]

1. PS Minor point: Ronald Reagan was not really from California.

Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, and mostly grew up in Dixon, Illinois. The West was not the only place that harbored these strange ideas.