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‘Gone With the Wind’ explains a lot about America

Watch it before the Second Civil War

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Gone With The Wind is one of my absolute favorite movies. If you haven’t seen this iconic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s melodramatic 1936 novel about the Antebellum South, I suggest you do so as soon as possible. You cannot understand America until you’ve seen this sprawling Civil War classic about the fall of the Confederacy.

I recommend it to anyone who thinks a new civil war is inevitable. It’s easy to dream of violence from a barcalounger when you’re confident your friends and family won’t be part of the slaughter. But that’s what the Civil War was: a savage bloodbath that laid waste to hundreds of thousands of Americans — millions, in today’s numbers. Wishing for a new war between the states does the dead a dishonor by suggesting the great cause was anything but pain and sorrow.

Conservatives who oppose the tearing down of Confederate monuments should definitely watch Gone With The Wind, a movie that will affirm their racist MAGA fantasies while reinforcing the truth: the South thoroughly lost the war. Liberals should also sit through all three hours and fifty-eight minutes of visionary producer David O. Selznick’s (with the help of director Victor Fleming, among…