Not the first time an American political party sanctions treason in pursuit of white nationalist goals.
Remember how many people were dunking on those national security "experts" last year when they estimated there's a "35% chance" of a civil war in the next 10-15 years?
It was stupid because of the silly attempt to quantify the probability.
What's sobering is that the Civil War began when slave interests refused to accept *any* limit on their political domination and opted to commit treason to retain supremacy.
Remember, the Civil War had many causes, but the spark that lit the powder was an election.
Remember, the Civil War had many causes, but the spark that lit the powder was an election.
The "treason issue" split the Democratic Party, but generally less so than one might suppose. In addition to Southern Democrats who joined the Confederacy, there were plenty of Copperhead Democrats in the North eager to cut a deal to end the war -- to the point of sedition.
(Actual #twitterstorians of the Civil War, please jump in and correct me if I'm getting the details/arguments wrong.)
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