David Blight talks in the video from February 2021, the month after the January 6 insurrection, about how he sees elements of a potential Lost Cause narrative developing among today's Trumpistas, a topic he addressed in a Politico interview about the same time. There he calls attention to a moment in the January 6 attack on the Capitol involving the image of the man I call the Evil Spirit of American History:
[Zack Stanton:] One of the lingering images of that the insurrection is the photo of a man holding a Confederate flag outside the Senate chamber while walking past a painting of abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner.
[Blight:] Yeah, with a painting of John Calhoun right behind him."
Full post:
https://brucemillerca.substack.com/p/confederate-heritage-month-2023-april-045
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