Trump just fine with Confederate traitor named military bases

It took the George Floyd protests to inform most Americans that ten military bases in the South were named for traitorous Confederate generals. Fort Bragg in North Carolina, is likely the most famous. It was named after Gen. Braxton Bragg, a battlefield commander who also served as military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Besides being a traitor, Bragg was a failed general. He was a poor tactician, unable to cooperate with his troops and forced to quit after his resounding defeat at the Battle of Chattanooga.

Defense Secretary Mike Esper and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy want these traitors’ names gone and are seeking bi-partisan congressional support for that overdue action. The President is all in on keeping those infamous names emblazoned on the American story, charging they honor America and won’t be deleted on his watch.

What struck me is they only go back to WWI through the 1940’s. It was a national effort at reconciliation with the South, the Lily White South that is; the black community suffering under Jim Crow be damned. I still remember my 1950’s northern education that taught me Reconstruction was radical, a misguided attempt at social engineering run by cravenous Northerners and their opportunistic Southern colleagues. Written out of that narrative were the thousands of blacks lynched after Reconstruction was ended in the aftermath of the 1876 presidential election.

Trump may tout the names on those bases as honoring our magnificent military. But historically speaking….they’re nothing to brag about.