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Jefferson Davis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court’s Civil War callback

Jeffrey Abramson, Dennis Aftergut
Donald Trump, behind bars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

An ex-president in prison? It'd be ugly

Matthew Rozsa
Jefferson Davis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't repeat the Jeff Davis mistake

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Statue of Jefferson Davis inside a crypt in Mississippi (Dwaine Rieves)

Lessons of a Confederate behind bars

Dwaine Rieves
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Cindy Hyde-Smith (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Photos: GOP Senator in Confederate gear

Shira Tarlo
Jefferson Davis; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Our slow motion civil war

Lucian K. Truscott IV
A statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest sits in a park in Memphis, Tennessee (AP/Adrian Sainz)

Memphis Confederate statues come down

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

confederates, not liberals

Kali Holloway - Alternet
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(Getty/Chet Strang)

Trump loves losers now?

Matthew Rozsa
Jefferson Davis Highway (Wikimedia)

jefferson davis blah-way

Angelo Young
Abraham Lincoln; Donald Trump; Jefferson Davis (Reuters/Rick Wilking/Wikimedia/Salon)

Trump embraces the Confederacy

Chauncey DeVega

Kali Holloway - Alternet
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Skylar Baker-Jordan - The Daily Dot
A woman waves a sign as she waits for the Confederate battle flag to be removed from in front of the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, July 10, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

"Always based on a flat lie"

Elias Isquith
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White supremacy's gross symbol

Elias Isquith
(AP/Dave Martin)

The south's victim complex

Matthew Pulver
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