Why conservatives are obsessed with erasing history--except the Confederacy

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3. Yup. And they do their best to erase it too.

So far, erasure has never worked. Just look at the imperial names later pharaohs tried to chisel from stone walls and pillars in ancient Egypt. Compare the commissioned writing of historians in imperial Rome to the stone carved history on tributes recovered from the same period. History finds a way.