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This was also Bill Barney's conclusion from the aftermath of the Wade-Davis bill!
snip of page from Why the Solid South? Reconstruction and its Results Chapter 1 - Reconstruction at Washington under Abraham Lincoln "The death of Abraham Lincoln was an appalling calamity - especially to the South. Had the crazy assassin withheld his hand, reconstruction could never have been formulated as it was, into the Acts of March 2d and March 23d, 1867."
Hilary Herbert's first chapter of Why the Solid South? begins with a similar argument:
"The death of Abraham Lincoln was an appalling calamity - especially to the South."
I most vividly see it in the scene of frail, elderly, beloved and loving but misguided Lincoln in Birth of a Nation
Right! He's just talked at length about the violence, injustice, & sin of 250 years of American slavery. Who's been treated with more malice & less charity than the enslaved?
You can only read those closing words as exclusively meaning "hey, let's give the rebs a break!" if you ignore its context.
Strange for its context--they walked into the apartment I was subletting at 10 pm not knowing I was there, being the kids of the original owner--not for its presuppositions
I once had a very strange conversation with some Univ SC frat bros who insisted Reconstruction would have gone better if Lincoln had not been assassinated since he would have been more forgiving of the South than Johnson was
And yet so many have chosen to!!
Sigh.
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
disturbing reports that donald trumps economic policy is exactly as bad as anyone who knows anything said it would be
Donald Trump slowly turning every Evangelical into an idolator and every liberal into a believer in Satan is a pretty good bit.
Those who don't move won't notice their chains. Says Skeletor definitely feeling the chains today.
The people who most violated Lincoln's vision, who showed the most malice and the least charity, were the former Confederates.
It's so often framed and perceived as being prescriptive to the North, and especially the radicals. Which of course it was. But. We need not perceive it as forgiveness.
You know, for all that I've read and thought about the address, it's only Stephen's thread that makes me wonder if we might also perceive the "malice toward none, charity for all" as being addressed *to* former rebels and not only about them.
Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs
Unbelievable Tracy Chapman show just preserved by the Aadam Jacobs Collection project.
Hey, you! Are you a bit of a weirdo? I promise you you'll fit right in, including if the thing that makes you weird is that you're a normie in an abnormal world.
Pretty sure nearly every student at Evergreen is in one way or another countercultural. And most faculty and staff tbh
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
I did see the Gin Blossoms in college in 2002, and it was a fantastic show despite/because they recognized they were a little washed up.
This is Spin Doctors erasure
He did explicitly call the war on terror a "crusade", which had a very direct and clear meaning given his public evangelicalism.
I just keep thinking of that line from M*A*S*H where Klinger says “ if it’s a police action, why didn’t they send the cops?”
Today's essential reading about history.
Henry IV Part 1, As You Like It, The Tempest, Macbeth
anyway, certainly Gertner or Platner or people who know them can correct if this is wrong but Peter Brimelow (who you may recall is the professional racist behind VDARE) has as evidence identified that a different Amy Gertner is Jewish, and I don't think Platner's wife is
This is the risk with using “partisan” as a stand-in for “black.” Maybe the Texas electorate really is too racist for a statewide candidate like Crockett. But that has very little to do with whether Texans will be ready to check Trump in eight months.
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and if you say this they get huffy about it, like you're supposed to accept them lying to you as part of the gig bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
