By Catherine Salgado

Written by Catherine Salgado

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Democrats of the past put up statues of Confederates in order to perpetuate an unhistorical myth about the Dem traitors and war criminals who tried to rip this nation apart in order to preserve slavery. Democrats of the present are removing Confederate statues for the same reason; namely, in order to spread a certain unhistorical narrative. They are erasing and rewriting their own history.

Firstly, all Confederates made it their avowed and express purpose permanently to split the United States of America because of the slavery debate, and a country that celebrates traitors is setting itself up for failure. You can’t show children monuments to traitors and then be taken aback if those children grow up with negative views on America and positive views of those who would undermine her. But the Confederate leaders — most of whom were Democrats — were also not the noble men of generosity and integrity that Democrat propaganda and Dem-erected statues have made them out to be. And yes, statues glorify the subjects; we remember Brutus and Benedict Arnold quite well without monuments, and it is as wrong to erect statues to Civil War traitors as to the traitor Arnold.

Robert E. Lee called black Union soldiers “property,” praised Nathan Bedford Forrest, and oversaw the mass rounding up and enslavement or killing of free black men, women, and children in multiple states. “Stonewall” Jackson loved to preach religion and humanity, yet he willingly fought for the side of those who committed mass war crimes and boasted about them. Nathan Bedford Forrest bragged about killing surrendering black and white troops at Fort Pillow and later founded the KKK. Former Democrat Secretary of War and Confederate President Jefferson Davis mandated the enslavement or execution of black Union soldiers and the execution of white Union officers who commanded black troops. The Confederate Congress then passed that mandate into law as the Retaliatory Act. You can read more here. These people were not heroes or stainless idealists. They were racist, treacherous, murderous ideologues willing to commit any crime or use any means to attain their own goals.

But the Democrat revisionism of history — which U.S. Grant first noted and warned about within a couple decades of the Civil War’s end — included not only demonizing Lincoln, Grant, and other Unionists, nor simply in publishing books and pamphlets with an alternative historical narrative, but in erecting numerous statues across the former Confederate states to the Democrat traitors of America’s bloodiest conflict.

Generations of young Americans saw impressive, gigantic, noble-looking statues of Davis and Jackson and Lee and immediately thought how admirable must be the subjects, because such heroic statues have an inherently glorifying effect. But now Democrats have realized they can politically and economically enslave black people through adjusting their rhetoric, taking down their own statues, and pretending that they loathe the racist Dems of the past.

The reality is that the Democrat Party from Andrew Jackson to the present has been racist, anti-Constitutional, anti-American, elitist, ruthless, corrupt, and rhetorically clever. They have left an endless trail of corpses and ruined towns and states in their wake, and yet they still shape the historical and political narrative. Democrats also know that Republicans are reactionaries, meaning lefties have only to take down a statue of Stonewall Jackson for Republicans to start bewailing it as a tragedy, thus confirming in ignorant voters’ minds the idea that Republicans are racist and Democrats are the party of anti-racism.

The Democrats put up the Confederate memorials as an architectural propaganda ploy. They now remove the memorials as an even more effective propaganda ploy. And Republicans are still falling for the bait, over a century and a half after the Civil War ended.

-Catherine Salgado

Catherine Salgado is a contributor for PJ Media. She also writes for The Rogue Review, Media Research Center, and her Substack Pro Deo et Libertate. She received the Andrew Breitbart MVP award for August 2021 from The Rogue Review for her journalism.

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