Trump Win Stirs History Lesson In Politics Of Post-Civil War Reconstruction & Southern Racism

2016, Meet 1877: Trump's Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction The Daily Beast

During the Civil war, many slaves fled North in search of freedom. Determined to defeat the racist oppression of the Confederacy, many of these men enlisted in the Union army, prepared to die for their country.

The result of the Civil War and slaves fighting with the Union Army was the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. In the next seven years, massive changes came to America. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution were passed in 1865, 1868, and 1870. Slavery was abolished; citizenship was granted to freed slaves, along with the promise that the right to vote could not be taken away because of a citizen's race, color or previous condition of servitude.

America’s entire identity, and especially the South’s, was redefined in revolutionary changes.  The very factions that fought these changes during Reconstruction bitterly underpin the hatred and disruption in America's political climate today, writes Barrett Holmes Pitner.

Fight Club & The Boys Club

Women Hit the Gym Before Trump Gets In The Daily Beast

Hillary Clinton supporters continue to be in mourning, but in New York at least, the angst of understanding just how difficult a Trump administration could make life for people who aren’t white and straight and men, a curious trend has emerged among some dejected liberal voters. They have decided to fight. Literally.

The ACLU published a letter to President-elect Donald Trump in the New York Times. It reads:

"For nearly 100 years, the American Civil Liberties Union has been the nation’s premier defender of freedom and justice for all, no matter who is president. Our role is no different today.

“President-elect Trump, as you assume the nation’s highest office, we urge you to reconsider and change course on certain campaign promises you have made. These include your plan to amass a deportation force to remove 11 million undocumented immigrants; ban the entry of Muslims into our country and aggressively surveil them; punish women for accessing abortion; reauthorize waterboarding and other forms of torture; and change our nation’s libel laws and restrict freedom of expression.

“These proposals are not simply un-American and wrong-headed, they are unlawful and unconstitutional. They violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. If you do not reverse course and instead endeavor to make these campaign promises a reality, you will have to contend with the full firepower of the ACLU at every step. Our staff of litigators and activists in every state, thousands of volunteers, and millions of card-carrying supporters are ready to fight against any encroachment on our cherished freedoms and rights.

“One thing is certain: we will be eternally vigilant every single day of your presidency and when you leave the Oval Office, we will do the same with your successor."

Headlines AOC Front Page

Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots 'An Entirely New Political Movement' AOC Front Page

"I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” Bannon tells THR media columnist Michael Wolff as the controversial Breitbart News chief turned White House advisor unleashes on Hillary Clinton, Fox News and his critics.

As writer Dana Thomas roamed the streets of Paris on November 9, interviewing shell-shocked Parisians, she had no way of knowing that over the weekend, not only would Donald Trump meet with Mr. Brexit Nigel Farage, setting off a crisis in British Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet, but Trump's Steve Bannon would pledge the full resources of the Trump campaign to Marine Le Pen.

Daily Headlines November 18, 2016

Trump Turns to His Right Flank to Fill National Security Posts The New York Times

The top 20 fake news stories outperformed real news at the end of the 2016 campaign VOX

Corey Lewandowski says FBI's decision to reexamine email case helped deliver Trump victory Mother Jones

Trump's Top Food Guy Just Abruptly Quit Mother Jones

David Brock gathering donors to 'kick Trump's ass Politico

The End of Identity Liberalism The New York Times