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John,
MAGA is in love with the ideals of the slave-owning Confederacy, before the messiness of equal rights became a focus for America.
They glorify the Confederacy so much that at Trump’s direction, the people who waged war against the United States in 1861 are being honored anew as heroes worthy of our adulation. Pete Hegseth is renaming military bases after Confederate generals, directly violating a 2021 law that banned the practice. And Trump is having Confederate monuments reinstalled across the country.
But things get truly ridiculous when MAGA attempts to lay claim to the principles of the Revolution AND the Confederacy.
Five years ago today, on the morning of January 6, 2021, Boebert declared the start of a Second American Revolution (the same was said by Confederates when they declared war on the Union):
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