The similarities are stunninly accurate:

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[LakeArenal]

1. Both represent the worst in humanity in the US

[BlueJac]

2. Bingo!

[Pantagruel]

3. At least the Confederacy

was out front and honest about preserving slavery.

[rickyhall]

4. Both left over half a million dead.

[NNadir]

7. Good point! N/t

[mountain grammy]

10. Exactly!

2016 to 2020 was our second Civil War. This time we must have trials for the traitors.

[Delphinus]

13. You said it! n/t

[Alice Kramden]

12. THIS

Too true

[calimary]

5. Interesting company you keep, donny-boy.

Birds of a feather - yet another old cliche proven true.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. That's a keeper. . . . nt

[malaise]

8. Brilliant

Rec

[grantcart]

9. Both had idiotic devotion to their idiotic flags

[IronLionZion]

11. We better put up statues of Trump, Bannon, Jared, Flynn, Pompeo, Stephen Miller, etc.

since we can't erase history. People can keep wearing MAGA stuff 100+ years from now.

[Faux pas]

14. Kickin'

[moondust]

15. Autocratic white nationalism/white supremacy.

Also drove Hitler/Nazis.

The seedlings of white supremacy had taken root in the mind of Adolf Hitler long before his implementation as the Chancellor of Germany in the early 1930's.
~
The Development of White Nationalism in Nazi Germany

I've sometimes wondered how much Hitler admired about the U.S. Confederacy and adopted for himself and Germany. Plus slave and forced labor in German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

K/R

[tanyev]

16. Only lasted four years, but the damage lasts for decades.

[Blue Owl]

17. Donald Trump is General Leer