That’s a beautiful sunset.
That’s a beautiful statue of General Stonewall Jackson, the hero of First Manassas and the Shenandoah Valley.
The young girl wore a beautiful dress.
Which use of the word “beautiful” just doesn’t add up? I’ll go with Stonewall.
President Trump today bemoaned the loss of the nation’s “beautiful” Confederate statues and monuments. “The beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!” he tweeted. Many people would say, "good riddance."
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The Civil War was not a beautiful thing for either the defeated South or victorious North. More than 750,000 soldiers died, according to a 2012 New York Times article about a 20 percent upward revision of the death toll.
The Civil War is remembered for slavery, death, disease, Underground Railroad, amputations, carnage, misery, bravery, draft riots, honor, unity and freedom.
Donald Trump’s tweets of today coincide with the publication of an editorial in The Economist that calls the tweeter-in-chief “politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office."
The British magazine does give him credit for “briefly uniting Fox News and Mother Jones in their criticism” of the president blaming the alt-right and “alt-left” for the violence of Charlottesville.
Believing the duty of a president is to unite the country, The Economist raps Trump for not getting beyond himself. “Instead of grasping that his job is to honor the office he inherited, Mr. Trump is bothered only about honoring himself and taking credit for his supposed achievements,” said the editors.
It’s up to Republicans to curb their leader. From The Economist: “Rather than indulging his outrages in the hope that something good will come of it, they must condemn them. The best of them did this week. Others should follow.”
That would be a beautiful thing.
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