John Fetterman tweeted a picture of fictional dad Homer Simpson in response to conspiracy theorists who just won't stop believing he uses a body double.
From an outsiders perspective if you really want a catalyst point I always look to the failure of the Union to subject the slaver capitalists of the Confederacy to Nuremberg style trials for sedition and treason.
Instead there was compromise and appeasement. The problem was swept under the rug.
There’s a lot of truth in this. The elites at the top of the South weren’t rooted out after their civil war and all of the bullshit going on in US politics today is a direct consequences of that failure.
It would have existed regardless of who you got rid of. An argument can be made that fierce retribution by the North would have only further sowed anger in the South and a divide.
There’s also the possibility that the chance at a productive reconstruction era likely died right at the start the minute Johnson became president.
From an outsiders perspective if you really want a catalyst point I always look to the failure of the Union to subject the slaver capitalists of the Confederacy to Nuremberg style trials for sedition and treason.
Instead there was compromise and appeasement. The problem was swept under the rug.
There’s a lot of truth in this. The elites at the top of the South weren’t rooted out after their civil war and all of the bullshit going on in US politics today is a direct consequences of that failure.
It would have existed regardless of who you got rid of. An argument can be made that fierce retribution by the North would have only further sowed anger in the South and a divide.
There’s also the possibility that the chance at a productive reconstruction era likely died right at the start the minute Johnson became president.