"The Power of the Story and Who Gets to Control It"

"David Blight, an American-history professor at Yale, has argued that January 6 is a novel twist on the 'Lost Cause'—the Confederate narrative of noble sacrifice that fueled successful white resistance to multiracial democracy in the years after the Civil War. The original Lost Cause strengthened into a racist political force over decades. When I reached out to Blight to discuss the comparison, he seemed unnerved by how quickly the memory of January 6 had shifted toward revisionism. 'We're in an unusual moment where evidence doesn’t seem to make any difference,' he told me. 'It's in that world that January 6 is being processed as a historical marker.'"

Quinta Jurecic at The Atlantic calls January 6 revisionism as "the politics of forgetting."