Fred Kaplan delves into why Donald Trump has a sudden veneration of Robert E. Lee…and, of course, a complete distortion of who Lee was and what he did.
Fred writes, "It is unclear why Trump is so passionate about Lee" and then offers up some theories. I'll offer two of my own. One is that Trump has a pretty good sense of what his followers want to hear and he just says such things with no regard as to truth or even how what he says might sit with those who are not solidly in the Trump camp. The other is that Trump admires a loser who people wrongly think was a winner.