Mark Sumner discusses Trump's Gettysburg speech, in which Trump stated,
"Gettysburg, wow. I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look, and to watch, and, uh, the statement of Robert Lee—who's no longer in favor, did you ever notice that? No longer in favor—'Never fight uphill, me boys. Never fight uphill.'"
And:
"What an unbelievable, I mean it was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious, and so horrible—and so beautiful in so many ways."
@deepmud A dolt and charlatan and con man and lots of other unspeakable things, sad to say — regarded as an alter Christus by many US Christians, unbelievably.
"The only thing more amazing than Trump’s Gettysburg address may be how PBS, The Associated Press, The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post all managed to cover Trump’s rally without mentioning one word of this historic statement. Because the national media covering Trump without telling Americans how disjointed and nonsensical his statements are is not historical—it’s what they do every day."
"Had President Joe Biden said anything half so irrational, every one of those same outlets would have dedicated their full front pages to a discussion of Biden’s mental fitness. But then, as the corporate owners of media outlets everywhere say, 'We need to preserve the horse race, me boys. We need to preserve the horse race.'”