"I cannot be sure of my facts here, but I suspect that Mitch Landrieu was the first white southern politician since the time of the Civil War itself to state publicly that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity, as he put it, and that it rightfully lost the war." DK on Mayor Landrieu's Confederate Monuments speech.
One senses that these are perhaps sentiments and assessments which DK shares with the Mayor...
"It is the natural result of the whig historian's habits of mind and his attitude to history -- though it is not a necessary consequence of his actual method -- that he should be interested in the promulgation of moral judgments and should count this as an important part of his office." Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History, VI. "Moral Judgments in History".
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