The social media profile of bystander Corey Comperatore who was shot dead during an assassination attempt on Donald Trump yesterday shows that he was a racist who despised Black people, a fervent Zionist who wished death and murder on millions of Palestinian civilians as well as climate change activists and was calling for a Civil War, was in fact not ready.
It lets them paint themselves as the successors of Lincoln and the Democrats as the successors of slave owners. Even though ideologically and culturally (North vs. South) it’s more the opposite.