‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’: The Pickett’s Charge of Trumpism

We are living through the second revival of the Great Lost Cause.

Print of General Pickett, on horseback, receiving orders from a resigned General Longstreet, at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863 | Jones Brothers & Company-Ogden, Henry Alexander, 1900, Library of Congress

When I grew up in Mississippi, the Fourth of July was a muted holiday. July 4, 1863, was the day Vicksburg fell to Grant. On July …