{"id":32516,"date":"2021-11-17T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32516"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:07:28","slug":"my-morning-email-to-an-old-buddy-re-politics-and-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32516","title":{"rendered":"My morning email to an old buddy re: politics and US History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:36 AM harrywelty <harrywelty@charter.net> wrote:<br \/>\n<strong>Poor Rutherfraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When we were in school we got the Democratic preferred history that Grant was the head of a corrupt government. That was the vintage DW Griffith history that Woodrow Wilson championed. It remained in JFK&#8217;S era with Profiles in Courage. BUT Grant is being reappraised. He was a stalwart for freedmen.<\/p>\n<p>Any attempt at Reconstruction died in the election of 1876. The agreement letting Rutherford win gave the south&#8217;s white democrats the future of their former slaves. Reagan welcomed southern dems into the GOP at the place where the 3 civil rights workers were murdered when we were kids.<\/p>\n<p>I always bridle when I hear some Republican blame democrats for supporting slavery because its a different party. They traded the issue with Republicans when southern dems changed sides and took their war against civil rights with them. Trump turbo charged it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:36 AM harrywelty wrote: Poor Rutherfraud. When we were in school we got the Democratic preferred history that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,31,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-gods-own-party","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32517,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions\/32517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}