In the second part of this special two-part episode, Jacob and Eric analyze the roots of the ongoing destruction of America’s culture, history, and identity, through the lens of the Left’s efforts to ruin the historical legacy of General Robert E. Lee. To do this, they take a closer look at the life and career of perhaps the most influential historian in America today, Eric Foner; Foner, who has written numerous works retroactively demonizing the Confederacy, was greatly influenced by the experiences of his father, Jack Foner, an avowed Marxist, who also actively worked to undermine America from within through the practice of rewriting history.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Virginia has fallen
05:30 Pfizer vials for posterity
10:50 Coping conservatives
15:40 Should we have statues to “losers” and “traitors”?
19:34 The national poisoner-in-chief behind Confederate iconoclasm: Eric Foner
26:15 Foner’s leftist father
35:56 Foner’s historical worldview
37:14 American Marxism and race
51:21 Foner’s understanding and use of Reconstruction
54:14 Foner’s Marxist thesis director
57:30 Controlling the past to control the present; controlling the present to control the future
SHOWNOTES
President Trump’s based statement on Robert E. Lee: https://gab.com/TheRightTake/posts/106898605679175318
Ralph Northam’s absurd list of items that will go into a new time capsule in the former Robert E. Lee statue’s pedestal: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/Time-Capsule-Replacement-Vision-and-Artifact-List.pdf
Historian Eric Foner’s revisionist take on Robert E. Lee: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/books/review/eric-foner-robert-e-lee.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclid=CjwKCAjw-ZCKBhBkEiwAM4qfF35EknfgYWNDnUvZ1_M1V64RXv__vDGlZdT9fOmUiaiDNY_UfssjYBoCMXEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
“Jews and the American Military” by Jack Foner, forward by Eric Foner: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/16883846/the-american-jewish-archives-journal
Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World by Eric Foner: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Who_Owns_History/H3I-Z8KW5REC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Who+Owns+History%3F:+Rethinking+the+Past+in+a+Changing+World&printsec=frontcover
Foner mentions that Karl Rove is a fan of his first book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49McwjkZmlw
Making slavery the end-all, be-all of American history: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ill-bet-they-know-all-about-malcolm-x-mona-charen/
Transcript on how Foner ties every contemporary political issue to his interpretation of Reconstruction: https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/eric-foner-significance-reconstruction-american-history
The Rapp-Coudert Committee and anti-communist liberals of New York: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol29/iss2/art4/
Marxist historian Mary Stanton on Lenin’s orders to American communists to recruit blacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aEJbg_cMO8
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