OMG.  How obtuse can you get?  It’s so very obviously a painting demonizing Millard Filmore’s betrayal of Zachary Taylor over the Compromise of 1850, that traitorous and amoral document put together by Henry Clay.

I mean, C’MON! It’s all right there!

cmg420:

I don’t get it.

chriscantwell:

This is me today, as in this entire scene is taking place over and over in my mind at a deafening volume.