Lost Cause-level hagiography, good lord. "A consummate Virginian, Robert E. Lee was an architect and executor of President Davis's major initiatives: deploying military power to advance the cause of states' rights, championing plantation ownership at home, and strengthening the powers of a noble aristocracy that, as both men saw it, had been unjustifiably restrained by Congress and the North in the aftermath of an election won by busybodies and meddlers who wanted to interfere with Southern landowners' god-given rights."

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay but this is basically what happened in the decades following the Civil War lol

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

And beyond! I grew up around libertarians who thought that Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was the real crime.

The old joke of "The South never surrendered! That scoundrel Grant stole his sword and Lee was too much of a gentleman to ask for it back!" isn't officially taken literally but, well, Stone Mountain still has that relief sculpture.