Ulysses S Grant on the possibility of another Civil War

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11. I have always regarded Grant as the second greatest President of the 19th century.

He was certainly an essential President, for it is doubtful the country would have survived with anyone else in office in the period which he served.

Much of the malignity directed at is presidency by historians was generated by the racists who have lingered monstrously in the US psyche and who are ascendant once again.

Trump will not survive his second term; he is already suffering from dementia but I'm fairly well convinced our country and its Constitution will survive this second festival of ignorance and oligarchy.