Robert E. Lee was the son of a general in the Revolution. Two of his uncles signed the Declaration of Independence, one of whom was also a member of the convention that drafted the Constitution. Lee was married to the granddaughter of George Washington’s adopted son. Lee was only one of many civil and military leaders of the Confederacy who were sons of soldiers in the Revolution. It is an astounding phenomenon of mass delusion (or mass ignorance) that most Americans believe that the corporate lawyer and ambitious politician Abraham Lincoln understood the true principles of the American Founding better than they did.

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An even more preposterous, though not mass, delusion is that Straussian “philosophers,” a generation out of eastern Europe, have the true understanding of the American Founding. ~Dr. Clyde Wilson