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‘No Kings’ Has Long Pedigree (1795), Jim Crow Can’t Ride (1870), Halloween Parade Grows Up (1985), Whose Right to Vote? (1890), Hope for Everything, Expect Nothing (1920), When Communists Filled Madison Square Garden (1940), Racism’s Admirers (1890)

The intellectual godfathers of the “alt right” and their descendants are on a fool’s errand: to rationalize irrational hatreds.

The fall of the Confederate monuments seemed impossible until the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide movement it propelled.