true is false, night is day. it's really no different than the kinds of arguments a lost cause with-ology developed in the late 19th century, saying they never fought for slavery, we are only defeated by superior numbers and resources, saying they never lost on the battlefield. and saying their racial system of slavery was this benign institution now crushed by the northern via thin. those stories, those myths took years and years to develop and take over the culture. it remains to be seen whether what trump and trumpism is doing constitutes a new lost cause. they are getting very close to it. >> let's listen to more from the msnbc documentary the civil war. let's listen to it. >> no one on the civilian side