We should've done a radical reconstruction:

- Strictly enforce 14th and 15th amendments and ban Black Codes, arrest warrants for entities that hinder enforcement

- Full expropriation of Southern landowners and rapid industrialization

- Keep troops in until at least 1885
Expropriation includes abolishing sharecropping, redistributing property and levying land taxes, which hastens industrialization by removing wasted resources / rents from the agriculture sector.
Any other ideas on how reconstruction could have been achieved better?
Also, nationalize the railroads. This was a big one for many Southern populists at the time (poor whites and blacks)

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Many of the Capital stormers in January got off, GOP legislatures considered bills to protect people who use their cars against protestors in ''self-defense,'' and now Rittenhouse has continued the pattern.

It could embolden right-wing extremist behavior.
Basically, it is a moral hazard.
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"all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat...''
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