Jonah Goldberg: Trump using US history as a cudgel in the culture war
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 07, 2020
3 minutes
I didn’t watch President Trump’s weekend speeches live. It was a holiday, so I chose to take one. As a result, I first learned about them from the reactions they elicited. As usual, it was like “Rashomon” for the Trump era.
According to the Washington Post, Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech signaled his “unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination,” which was “crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice
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