Watching someone you care about devolve into ever deeper trenches of mental illness can be profoundly painful. So what is like when when watching it happen to Donald Trump, the most despised occupant of the White House in modern times?
There is little doubt that Trump holds the undisputed title of America’s Biggest Loser. And after being decisively defeated by Joe Biden, Trump has continued to nurse the delusion that he “won by a landslide” because the election was “rigged.” Never mind that he’s had nine months to offer up evidence of that claim but he and all of his minions have utterly failed to do so.
Sore losers often find it comforting to commiserate with one another in an effort to ease the pain of having to acknowledge the glaring inadequacies that are obvious to everyone else who isn’t among the their glassy-eyed cult followers. And that’s what Trump is doing in a bizarre alt-tweet, posted by his spokes-shill, (whose proxy Trump tweeting is violating Twitter’s rules against circumventing a ban).
In this official statement by the Former Guy, takes a “bold” stand in favor of the Confederate traitors who fought to secede from the United States so that they could continue to own human beings as property. Trump was triggered by news of the removal of a statue commemorating one of his personal heroes, Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
For the record, such removals are not suppressing history, as the apologists for the Southern traitors often argue. The history remains in books, museums, TV and films, and many other appropriate warehouses of knowledge. Statues are not history lessons. They are tributes. That’s why we don’t have statues of Hitler in public squares to preserve him in historical terms.
Trump’s statement, however, was an unambiguous celebration of one of America’s most committed perpetrators of treason. Trump began by describing how he “watched as a massive crane took down the magnificent and very famous statue of ‘Robert E. Lee On His Horse'” Clearly upset by what he considered to be an offensive act, Trump went on to laud Lee, saying that…
“Robert E. Lee is considered by many generals to be the greatest strategist of them all. President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day. Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia, and except for Gettysburg, would have won the war. He should be remembered as perhaps the greatest unifying force after the was was over.”
WTF? First of all, Lee’s reputation was the result of decades of propaganda. He didn’t lead the revolt “because of his great love of Virginia.” He led it because he was a slave owner who believed that slavery was condoned, and even advocated, by his Christian faith. Lee told a reporter at the time that “based on wisdom and Christian principles, you do a gross wrong and injustice to the whole negro race in setting them free.”
What’s more, Lee was among eight West Point trained colonels from Virginia in the U.S. Army when the South sought to wage war against the United States. The other seven remained loyal to the Union, while Lee alone chose treason. It had nothing to do with loving Virginia, as Trump said. And Lee was never a “unifying force” after the war. He wanted only to unify the white Northerners and Southerners. He still believed that Blacks were inferior and lobbied to prohibit them from voting.
However, perhaps the most ludicrous claim Trump said in that statement was that “except for Gettysburg” Lee and the South would have won the war. Really? That’s like saying “except for Waterloo Napoleon would have won.” Or “except for 81 million Americans voting for Biden, Trump would have won.” In short, Trump is saying that except for losing he would have won. Duh!
The cult worship of Lee by Trump and his Southern Confederate brethren is entirely misplaced. Historians have debunked the undo acclaim he has been showered with. An essay published in the Washington Post in 2017 set the record straight. In it Lee is described as a “bumbling strategist and the central character in ‘the most successful propaganda campaign in American history.'” Continuing it noted that “Lee’s ineptitude was most damaging at Gettysburg.”
What makes this all more nauseating is that Trump is virtually pining for the Southern victory that he believes Lee earned. His statement went on to say that…
“Our culture is being destroyed and our history and heritage, both good and bad, are being extinguished by the Radical Left, and we can’t let that happen! […] What an embarrassment we are suffering because we don’t have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!”
For Trump – the infamously famous “stable genius“ and bone spur sufferer – to opine on the competence of generals is a joke. He has distinguished himself as a military moron. The generals he appointed while president mostly look upon him with scorn and ridicule, calling him an “idiot” and worse.
Trump’s Defense Secretary, General Mattis, said he made “a mockery of our Constitution” His Chief of Staff, General Kelly, said that he has “poisoned Americans’ minds”. His National Security Advisor, General McMaster, said he was “aiding and abetting Putin.” The only general on Trump’s side, confessed felon Mike Flynn, confirms the Putin charge. But now Trump wants us to consider his assessment of quality military leadership? No sir!
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My republican acquaintances are so distraught at the news of the removal of Lee’s statue that they’re posting pictures of him and saying to “flood facebook” with the pictures out of respect for this great general. Willing to bet most of them had no idea who Lee was until Trump decided he was worth hero-worshipping. Makes me sad that I know so many numb skulls.
The crap they taught us in high school “American History” class wasn’t accurate due to its attempts to “be fair” to both sides of the Civil War, for example. They didn’t want to put a bias in students against 1 side or the other. A noble idea, I suppose.
Funny, how they did not feel the same way when it came to white man’s ‘invasion’ of what is now the USA. History books felt no need to truthfully portray what we did to Native Americans & how we took this Country from them. I guess that “noble” telling of both sides only applied when both sides are white guys, eh?
And now, what little we learned about slavery, prejudice & Civil Rights (very little!), the right-wing, still prejudiced as ever folks want to make sure that students never even learn about that at all. Why? Can’t handle the truth?!? We were who we were. We did what we did. Most of us have come a long way since then & learned a great many lessons that should never be forgotten! But, they are being shoved under the rug by those who did NOT grow, or learn, or become better people. Those who would love to return to days of slavery, women not voting, or participating & old white men in total control of their world, by force.
That’s what those folks mean by, “Make America Great Again”. That’s when they think it was great. Maybe for them it was. They had all the money, the power & the control over everyone & everything. No one questioned them back then. That is what the current day Rethugs would love to return to & they’re taking us back there, if they have their way. Part of that is wiping all truth they don’t like from U.S. History. History books are found in non-fiction; supposed to be fact-based, even tho not 100% accurate. Look at who wrote textbooks. Native Americans? African-Americans? Peasants? No. Yet, other historical books have been written by those with differing views from where they stood & thank God for that, or we’d know nothing at all about history, only historical fiction.
“Those who don’t know/remember history are doomed to repeat it.”
That’s a fact.