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Trump Is Trying to Make the Confederacy Great Again

PEPE WAS PRELUDE

Like Scarlett O’Hara with Tara in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Trump is aiming to restore the grandeur of bygone days.

Lloyd Green
Lloyd Green
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Lloyd Green

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