Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.

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    There’s a lot of truth in this. The elites at the top of the South weren’t rooted out after their civil war and all of the bullshit going on in US politics today is a direct consequences of that failure.

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      It would have existed regardless of who you got rid of. An argument can be made that fierce retribution by the North would have only further sowed anger in the South and a divide.

      There’s also the possibility that the chance at a productive reconstruction era likely died right at the start the minute Johnson became president.