Biden Compares Jan 6 Protesters To Confederate Soldiers, Dubs It Second ‘Lost Cause’

[Elderberry]

Daily Caller by Reagan Reese  1/8/2024

President Joe Biden drew comparisons during a Monday speech between protesters at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to Confederate soldiers who couldn’t accept that they had lost the Civil War.

Biden gave a speech Monday at Mother Emanuel AME Church, one of the oldest black churches in the south, only days after Vice President Kamala Harris made a similar trip to speak to the Seventh Episcopal District AME Church Women’s Missionary Society. The president said during his speech that Confederate soldiers embraced a “lost cause” after not coming to terms with the result of the Civil War, then moving on to talk about the Capitol riot, adding that Americans are now living in an era of a “second lost cause.” (RELATED: Biden Speech Goes Off The Rails As Pro-Palestinian Protesters Start Ceasefire Chant)

“After the Civil War, the defeated confederates couldn’t accept the verdict of the war, they had lost,” Biden said. “So they say, they embraced what is known as ‘the lost cause,’ a self-serving lie that the Civil War was not about slavery but about states’ rights. They called that the noble cause. That was a lie.”

“Now we are living in an era of a second lost cause,” Biden continued. “Once again there are some in this country trying, trying to turn a loss into a lie. A lie, which if allowed to live will once again bring terrible damage to this country and this time the lie is about the 2020 election. The election which you made your voices heard. And your power is known.”

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Confederate soldiers were defending their homes and their way of life.

The Janaury 6th rioters were defending Trump's ego.

[The_Reader_David]

Confederate soldiers were defending their homes and their way of life.

The Janaury 6th rioters were defending Trump's ego.

Quite.

Several thoughts:

First, adopting the phrase "second lost cause" is actually good rhetoric on the part of Biden's speech writer (surely it wasn't Biden himself who came up with that).

Second, as to the cause of the "Late Unpleasantness" to use a euphemism prevalent during the late 19th century, curiously at the time the North viewed it as being about states rights, to wit, that states did not have the right to secede, while the South viewed it as being about slavery (as evidenced by their secession being triggered by the election of a (moderate) abolitionist to the Presidency and the enshrining of slavery in the Confederate Constitution), but after the fighting stopped, they reversed roles -- Southerners claiming it was about states' rights (on which they had a better objectively considered Constutional claim to having been in the right) and Northerners claiming it was about slavery (on which they had a better moral claim to having been right).  Plainly it was about both (with a dash of tariff policy, another Southern grievance, thrown in as seasoning).

[Timber Rattler]

...while the South viewed it as being about slavery (as evidenced by their secession being triggered by the election of a (moderate) abolitionist to the Presidency...

Lincoln was no abolitionist.  He was an old line Northern Whig and considered them to be dangerous fanatics.