A Perfect Distillation of Trump’s Approach to Politics

Philip Bump: “There are very few people born in the United States who are responsible for as many American deaths in combat and who played larger roles in the near-dissolution of the country than Robert E. Lee. This remains true despite decades of effort to whitewash his legacy, to cast the Civil War as a dispute not about slavery but about state sovereignty and despite efforts to insist that Lee only grudgingly joined that effort.”

“Former president Donald Trump appears not to be familiar with this reality.”