Some useful reminders here about Grant, who was long hated by the Dunning School; the Dunning school's enemies are now the woke mob's enemies. My 2-parter on his heroic but flawed presidency:
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In 1872, there was what we'd call today a Never Grant movement. Longtime Republicans such as Horace Greeley & Charles Sumner defected to join the anti-Reconstruction Democrats, over a variety of grievances. Frederick Douglass broke with his old friends to stand with Grant & GOP.
Grant also, over time, rethought some of his ideas about Jews & immigrants.
Conservatives may be divided on how much charity to show these many years later towards the relics of the vanquished Confederacy, but few things will unite us like a defense of Washington, Lincoln, & Grant.
We should not celebrate the Confederacy; the question is whether to leave its monuments be. But damn it, we will celebrate America's Founding & the men who saved it from the Confederacy & freed the slaves.
Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but I for one am not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America.
