#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives (Repost)

2021-11-28

Original Air Date 12/09/2020 Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump. This is not our country's first experience with Lost Causes and it's not, contrary to popular opinion, even our second connection to a Lost Cause narrative because we didn't invent the first one, we borrowed it from somewhere else and I will tell that story today. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email...

Original Air Date 12/09/2020

Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump. This is not our country's first experience with Lost Causes and it's not, contrary to popular opinion, even our second connection to a Lost Cause narrative because we didn't invent the first one, we borrowed it from somewhere else and I will tell that story today.

Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

Transcript

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Jay's Opening Comments

Ch. 2: Reading Harry Potter In Scots

Ch. 3: Jay’s comments: the history of a Lost Cause

Ch. 4: Sir Walter Scott, The Old South and The Lost Cause - Who Put The Klan Into Klu Klux Klan?

In this documentary, archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver examines racism in the Deep South and the Scots who first occupied it who influenced where we are today.

Ch. 5: How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history - Vox - Air Date 10-25-17

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South's memory of the Civil War.

Ch. 6: How the 'Lost Cause' narrative became American history - Washington Post - Air Date 3-5-20

How the 'Lost Cause' narrative became American history - Washington Post - Air Date 3-5-20

Ch. 7: Monumental Lies - Reveal - Air Date 12-8-18

Myths of the Civil War and slavery are being kept alive at Confederate monuments, where visitors hear stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” We team up with The Investigative Fund

Ch. 8: Kevin Levin Exposes the Lie and Whitewashed History of So-Called "Black Confederate Soldiers" and the American Civil War - The Chauncey DeVega Show - Air Date 10-18-20

Kevin Levin Exposes the Lie and Whitewashed History of So-Called "Black Confederate Soldiers" and the American Civil War - The Chauncey DeVega Show - Air Date 10-18-20

Ch. 9: MAGA, the New Confederate Lost Cause Part 1 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-16-20

White supremacist myths turn defeated leaders into heroic victors. Will Donald Trump now get the same transfiguration as Robert E. Lee? If history is our guide then there’s reason to worry about the answer to that question.

Ch. 10: MAGA, the New Confederate Lost Cause Part 2 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-16-20

White supremacist myths turn defeated leaders into heroic victors. Will Donald Trump now get the same transfiguration as Robert E. Lee? If history is our guidethen there’s reason to worry about the answer to that question.

MEMBERS BONUS CLIPS

Ch. 11: MAGA, the New Confederate Lost Cause Part 3 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-16-20

FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 12: Jay’s comments: the last few connections

Ch. 13: Final comments on our ongoing campaigns

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