2016, Meet 1877: Trump’s Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction

For 12 years after the Civil War, the forces of progress changed a lot of things for the better in the South. Then night set in. It ought to sound familiar.

Barrett Holmes Pitner

Published Nov. 16 2016 1:00AM EST 

Barrett Holmes Pitner

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