The Big Lie Is the South’s New Lost Cause

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-big-lie-is-the-souths-new-lost-cause?ref=home?ref=home

Speaking in the South Carolina church where a white supremacist gunman killed nine people, Biden likened the Confederates who embraced the “lost cause”—that the war was about state’s rights, and resisting federal power, as Nikki Haley recently suggested, and not about slavery. “Now, we’re living in an era of a second lost cause,” Biden said, citing the 2020 election and those “trying to turn loss into a lie.”