FROM KING FEATURES SYNDICATE
BY BOB FRANKEN
LEE’S WRONG WAR
Donald Trump and the Republicans (pardon the redundancy) have figured it all out. They win their elections, even if they lose. Trump is fresh off his polling “steal” in 2020 and looking forward to the California recall balloting this week. He predicted, in a Newsmax interview, that Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democrat thieves have “probably rigged” the voting.
The state GOP Trumpettes are already screaming fraud, even though all the ballots aren’t in yet. It’s getting so we don’t even need to have elections. Beforehand, the losers can charge hanky-panky of some sort, and then those losers can hold a violent invasion of the state or national capital, in this case, Sacramento. Then the election is tainted forever, at least in the minds of some gullible voters.
In fact, let’s not stop with elections. How about wars? The Taliban didn’t just take over Afghanistan, particularly after they were run out 20 years ago. After the United States spent more than $2.25 trillion — $300 million a day — and thousands upon thousands of lives were lost, it was all for naught, rigged. We shouldn’t have bothered.
For an explanation, it’s Donald Trump to the rescue once again. We just had the wrong people leading the charge all along. He was equating the lost cause in Afghanistan to another “Lost Cause” war 160 years ago, the Civil War, the War Between the States, where Gen. Robert E. Lee led the troops of the Confederate army against the Union soldiers. They were fighting for the Southern way of life, including slavery.
They were also guilty of treason and should have been hanged, each and every one of them. Instead, after Abraham Lincoln’s “With malice toward none, with charity for all” second inaugural address, Robert E. Lee statues ended up everywhere. None more prominent than the 40-foot-high behemoth that was erected along Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, about 130 years ago when reminiscences of the old gracious South, with its gracious slavery, were in full flower — for the white flowers, of course.
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