I cannot think of a more apt symbol for the inconstancy of US progressive leaders than POTUS Ulysses S. Grant who in 1871 used the military to stop Ku Klux Klan violence only to reverse course 2 years later and pardon all of the KKK members he convicted. As if that wasn’t dismaying enough, he relocated the military west to kill Indigenes because liberals and radicals in his party were divided over Reconstruction and he believed he needed conservatives both south and west. #US #history