Renaming Fort Bragg: A major issue facing America in 2023
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On the day Donald Trump got indicted for committing dozens of high level felonies, this is what Ron DeSantis was talking about:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking at the NCGOP convention Friday night, said if he’s elected president he would reverse the recent decision to change the name of Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty. The promise by DeSantis to restore the name of the major military installation just north of Fayetteville, which earned loud cheers and applause from a ballroom full of Republican delegates at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, came just as President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden left newly named Fort Liberty after meeting with members of the armed forces. . .
“I also look forward to, as president, restoring the name of Fort Bragg,” DeSantis said to raucous cheers from the crowd. He added that he would “thank the people that have served there, and they’re proud of their service there.” “It’s an iconic name and an iconic base, and we’re not going to let political correctness run amok in North Carolina,” DeSantis said as the crowd continued to cheer.
The weird thing about this particular outburst of right wing linguistic fetishism is that Braxton Bragg, besides being a traitor in the defense of slavery, was also a really terrible general, whose incompetence on the battlefield played a significant role in the Confederacy’s ultimate defeat:
Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the Civil War. Most of the battles he engaged in ended in defeat. Bragg was extremely unpopular with both the officers and ordinary men under his command, who criticized him for numerous perceived faults, including poor battlefield strategy, a quick temper, and overzealous discipline. Bragg has a generally poor reputation with historians . . .The losses suffered by Bragg’s forces are cited as highly consequential to the ultimate defeat of the Confederacy.
That a major US military base was ever named after this traitorous loser in the first place is a tribute to the perverse influence of the Dunning Kruger school of revisionist Civil War history.
Speaking of which, I wonder what’s going to end up getting named after Donald Trump? That will probably end up being a major battlefield in the wars over “political correctness”/”wokeness” a couple of decades from now, at least on whatever Fox News has metastasized into by then.