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Unity without justice is dangerous, historians say. Just look at the Civil War
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Joe Biden begins his presidency on Wednesday in a nation scarred by far-right violence and steeped in disunion.
In the tumultuous days leading up to Biden’s inauguration, the country has seen a mob attack its government and the current president impeached for a second time. In the background of this America lurk clashing memories of the Civil War — invoked by the Confederate battle flags that white supremacist rioters brandished in the US Capitol and echoed in the country’s fierce conflicts over politics, race, and democracy.
Historians say one lesson to learn from the aftermath of that war is not to rush toward a false sense of unity, but to first take unflinching action against harmful ideologies and the people who spread them, to secure liberty for all rather than trade it away.
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