150 Years Ago — Lee Surrenders to Grant, but wait, there’s more….
April 9, 2015 Leave a Comment
Interesting opinion piece today, the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant ending the armed Civil War, in the Washington Post by Harold Meyerson
Fueled by the mega-donations of the mega-rich, today’s Republican Party is not just far from being the party of Lincoln: It’s really the party of Jefferson Davis. It suppresses black voting; it opposes federal efforts to mitigate poverty; it objects to federal investment in infrastructure and education just as the antebellum South opposed internal improvements and rejected public education; it scorns compromise. It is nearly all white. It is the lineal descendant of Lee’s army, and the descendants of Grant’s have yet to subdue it.
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