“Historians quibble with this interpretation,,,”
Interpretation,, the facts are not in dispute and conservatives are correct, but we still disagree.
True, but watch the terminology about “competing narratives.” The postmodern approach to history is that all facts are “untrue” except to the people who believe them. A “narrative” is a postmodern way of dismissing objective facts as no more than a sequence of subjective beliefs, so the facts don’t matter, only the persuasive quality of the “narrative.” Which is precisely why the dems keep saying, “well, our message isn’t working,” instead of “our grasp of physical reality is defective.” For them, reality is created by a good narrative, nit the other way around. It’s no wonder they’re “reality challenged” when it comes to doing anything that actually works, other than propaganda. They’re really good at that.