“I think it wiser,” he wrote, “not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife.” Lee’s admonitions in the aftermath of defeat. Trump’s feeble message to his stalwarts about going home and keeping the peace was similar in tone to Gen. As individuals carried the flag of the Confederacy, the flag of rebellion against the United States, into the Capitol, it was a moment not lost on historians - and a moment of dire concern for most Americans. We have to have peace.”Īs the Trump presidency comes to a close after a sound defeat, and after four years of having led a movement that many agree has undermined our Constitution and the nation itself, it is difficult not to see the parallels between his lost cause and the failed cause of the Confederacy in 1865. Trump repeated false claims about election fraud but told them: “You have to go home now. A few hours later, he stood in the White House Rose Garden to deliver a different message after members of this same group - who carried flags bearing his name - stormed the Capitol, brawled with Capitol Police and breached both chambers of Congress. Wednesday morning, President Trump urged a crowd of supporters who showed up in Washington, D.C., to “walk down to the Capitol” and protest the certification of the election taking place nearby on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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