This post is predictably now drawing in the haters. So let me clarify something about my celebration of Lee: He was a better man than anyone alive today, he was a hero, and no emotional display of outrage will convince me otherwise. Robert E Lee today, Robert E Lee forever.

@contramordor General Lee may well be the greatest American ever to live. A fantastic choice, C.Jay and a supremely satisfying capstone to your month-long work. Thank you for all you do.

@RogueEvolent Thanks! I made it!

@contramordor As a fellow West Pointer he should have taken the offer or resigned. He was a traitor to the Union. Full stop. Stop glorifying him. Do I forgive him? Of course. But he doesn’t get to be glorified. Period. This wasn’t a minor “flaw” like some northerner owning slaves.

@mikepratt Stay mad

@contramordor ‘his people and their well-being always meant more to him than any ideological crusade’ Translation: Black People didn’t count. Racism is not an ‘ordered love’. It is anti-Gospel. Don’t celebrate people who, faced with the question “But who is my neighbor?” disagree with Jesus.

@mrdavidrowe Sorry. You can’t Jesus Juke me.

@contramordor White supremacist, I presume.

@RaiderJ0KER Of course you do

@contramordor As a Northerner, I revere Robert E Lee. Thank you for highlighting him in such a respectful manner. The haters are entertaining.

@SkiBohemia That’s the spirit! He belongs to all of us.

@contramordor He was a man-stealer and a traitor to his country.

@scotchanglican Lol

@contramordor The enslaved people were Southerners, as well. He did not defend their well-being or integrity.

@EffTexas He defended the well-being and integrity of the property owners, the institutions, and the traditions of the South. This reflects the historically unavoidable reality that politics is about the clash of elites.

@contramordor My grandfather swore to us all his life we descended from Robert E. Lee. I’ve never been able to prove it, but would certainly take it as a point of pride. He was an honorable man who stood firm in a difficult time. An excellent capstone to this project. I’ve enjoyed reading.

@FreedFederalist Thank you! He’s the greatest!

@contramordor Truly a great American and a member of the Pantheon of All time great generals. Even if I think he was misguided (from the comfort of 21st century suburbia) I respect him as a man

@1mv3g4n I respect this position, compared to those having heart attacks over this.

@contramordor How was Lee a descendant of George Washington?

@DavidWoolw50468 He wasn’t. I wrote too swiftly. He had family relations by marriage.