Well, certain aspects of it, anyway.
Kelly surprises, revealing himself as a genuine Trumpist, defending monuments to confederate heroes by defending the heroes.
Specifically, and echoing Trump's "good people on both sides" remarks about the opposed groups at Charlottesville, he defends Lee as an honorable man of principle.
He embraces a view of The Civil War popular in my youth, even among some historians.
It was itself a midpoint between the outright pro-Confederate view that, with or without defending slavery per se, defends secession, damns Lincoln as a conqueror, and celebrates the Lost Cause on the one side and the pro-Unionist, abolitionist view of the Radical Republicans on the other.
That last was the view of those who tried to disempower and marginalize racism in America, beginning immediately after The Civil War, not only liberating the slaves but trying to secure them political, social, and civil equality, full, free, and equal integration and participation in American life.
That is the view of those who want the monuments to the Confederacy to come down.
To bring upon himself further disgrace, he says he will never apologize to Congresswoman Wilson, insisting he stands by his remarks about her, both grossly insulting and mostly egregious lies.
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