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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Wilson tweet:
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Apparently I just missed the presser where Trump became Presidency of the Confederacy.
4:35 PM - Aug 15, 2017
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Ilsa
Aug 2017
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Solly Mack
(96,649 posts)1. lololol
Sadly
VOX
(22,976 posts)2. tRump and Jefferson Davis have some traits in common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis
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Many historians attribute the Confederacy's weaknesses to the poor leadership of Davis. His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors and generals, favoritism toward old friends, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones, and resistance to public opinion all worked against him.
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Many historians attribute the Confederacy's weaknesses to the poor leadership of Davis. His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors and generals, favoritism toward old friends, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones, and resistance to public opinion all worked against him.
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Ilsa
(64,028 posts)4. We should send trump the statues of the failed Jeff Davis. nt :)
fierywoman
(8,540 posts)9. He can decorate all those ugly gold rooms in Trump tower with them
hatrack
(64,520 posts)8. Best description I ever read re. Davis:
"As cold as a lizard and as ambitious as Lucifer".
Skittles
(170,226 posts)3. he ONLY talks to his racist supremacist base
that's why he sounds like such a moron to everyone else
NewJeffCT
(56,848 posts)5. That's Republican Rick Wilson
who's been pretty awesome smashing Trump
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)6. Long Live the King....of the Confederacy of the United States! "CUS"
nolabear
(43,850 posts)7. A Confederacy of Dunces.
