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Not Defeating, But Disqualifying Donald

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The Insurrection of January 6, 2021

The idea was that people who had been government officials or military officers and then left to join the Confederacy were not sort of deserving of trust. It was meant to be a kind of targeted remedy that would deal with the worst of the worst. This was enforced for a period of time after the Civil War against people like Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. And then was basically kind of forgotten until January 6, 2021 when then people started to talk about it as again as a possibility.

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