. . . Palm Beach, Florida, 1901. It was at one time the largest wooden building in the world. Now it’s gone.
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The darkness that’s about to descend on America is almost unimaginable. It will mark the end of The Republican Party forever — Republicans will take their place in the dustbin of history alongside the Bolsheviks and the National Socialists, but this will be cold comfort in the midst of the misery they will will have inflicted on America and the world. For centuries mankind will puzzle over this question — “How could the American people have allowed this to happen?”
The Republican Party is is the process of staging a coup against representative democracy in America. It may or may not succeed, but it is at the very least the most momentous event in American history since South Carolina voted to secede from the Union in 1860. People who see it as a “spat” between the two major parties are living in a dream world, as most people were in 1860 — until they heard the sound of the guns.
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. . . victor of Gettysburg, one of the most important battles in American history. He was criticized, probably unfairly, for letting Lee’s army get away after the battle, and his star was further dimmed when U. S. Grant was brought east soon after the battle and placed in charge of all Union forces, making Meade a glorified lieutenant.
Meade was a cautious, methodical general, but that methodical caution at Gettysburg probably saved the Union, even if Meade himself never inspired the adulation of his countrymen. Grudging respect was his fate.
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