The Confederates were the bad guys in the Civil War, according to House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s take on this very specific limited instance of Gov Tim Walz evoking “Fort Sumter” in the Trump Administration’s campaign of brutality against the people of Minneapolis. The Confederates are also the bad guys when some MAGA Twitter user posts “I haven’t seen the Democrats this upset since Lincoln freed all the slaves” because LMAO Trump owned the libs on this or that.
Such instances however are isolated perturbations in the overall narrative of “muh heritage” in which military installations named after Confederate officers and monuments are threatened by the “woke left” who want to rewrite history. And also “restoring truth and sanity to American history” by removing any mentions of slavery from various sites managed by federal National Park Service.