The Confederate Name Game: Trump’s Petty War on History

MAGA’s nostalgia trip now includes rebranding military bases and erasing civil rights heroes — all while pretending it’s about heritage, not revenge.

MAGA, at its core, is a kind of cultural revanchism — the political version of storming into the past and demanding the nineteenth century back.

Sometimes it’s about big stuff, like mass deportations. But it also trickles down into the pettier symbolic squabbles — like slapping Confederate names back onto military bases, because apparently the Civil War…