National Review: Remove All Confederate Monuments

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the “True Conservatives”:

“Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white-supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. That doesn’t change the fact that his statue is now associated with a campaign of racist violence against the picturesque town where Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. The statue of Lee was already slated for removal by the city, but the Battle of Charlottesville should be an inflection point in the broader debate over Confederate statuary. The monuments should go. Some of them simply should be trashed; others transmitted to museums, battlefields, and cemeteries. The heroism and losses of Confederate soldiers should be commemorated, but not in everyday public spaces where the monuments are flashpoints in poisonous racial contention, with white nationalists often mustering in their defense. …”

It is true that Charlottesville is a clarifying moment.

The Alt-Right will unapologetically stand in defense of the identity, heritage and rights of White Americans. The “constitutional conservatives” will clutch their pearls and capitulate to whatever the Left is demanding as usual. We’ve said all along that these people have never conserved anything. How many millions of decades has the public squandered on “True Conservatism” over the years?

Folks, these people couldn’t even conserve women’s restrooms. They couldn’t stop the killing of millions of babies. They failed to preserve the definition of marriage. Do you think they are strong enough to conserve Confederate monuments, build a wall or do anything to reverse our national decline?