President Biden’s speech takes Americans back to post-Civil War stakes. (via The ReidOut Blog)
At every opportunity possible, I like to draw comparisons between so-called modern-day America and our not-too-distant past, to jar people from the belief that atrocities committed back then can’t be repeated today.
Joe Biden’s speech Wednesday about the rise of right-wing, political violence helped paint that picture.Grant was driven to denounce the post-Civil War terrorism in the South, led by violent ethno-nationalist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Biden’s speech on Wednesday warned of an increasingly violent conservative movement, as well, embodied by right-wing lawmakers andIn fact, if you look at remarks from the two presidents side-by-side, it’s clear they’re essentially talking about the same danger.
[I]nasmuch as the necessity therefor is well known to have been caused chiefly by persistent violations of the rights of citizens of the United States by combinations of lawless and disaffected persons in certain localities lately the theater of insurrection and military conflict, I do particularly exhort the people of those parts of the country to suppress all such combinations by their own voluntary efforts through the agency of local laws and to maintain the rights of all citizens of the...
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