Sad thing is that we almost had Benjamin Butler to guide us through reconstruction. Lincoln asked him to be his vp for his second term and he ironically said he had no interest unless Lincoln could guarantee that Lincoln would resign or die within a year.

Crazy to ponder how he would have fundamentally reshaped American history. You can say a lot about Benjamin Butler, but the man did not tolerate confederate sympathies.

Conservatives could take the hint that racism burns calories; it doesn’t matter how you feel in your heart. John Roberts doesn’t use the N word when he steals voting rights from black Americans living in the slaveholding States.