Vindicating the defenders of Confederate monuments

Opposed to taking them down, defenders of the monuments argued from Trump to Buchanan that those who wanted them taken down would move on to attack all monuments to America's past leaders.

The virtuous Children of Zinn seem determined to vindicate the claims of those defenders.

The social justice warriors, having spent their fury on monuments to the Confederacy, have gone in search of other targets. 

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they have set their sights on America’s sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln.

All the same, not all of America's celebrated heroes are honored for their sins, like the Confederate leaders.

And that makes the question of America's past and celebration of it a wedge issue that can be easily used against Democrats.

During this controversy, white Democrats have stood for taking down Confederate monuments because those monuments celebrate those people precisely for their sins: for fighting a treasonous war against the United States solely in order to preserve the chattel slavery of black people.

Monuments to Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, however, don't do that, nor do the bulk of monuments to American heroes of the past, and white Democrats have so far rejected tearing them down because of the sins of those heroes.

But the SJW's and many nonwhite Democrats are forthright Children of Zinn, committed to the racist dogma of indigenism as well as pretty much anything else expressing hatred of the white race and its history in the New World, and they have already denounced monuments to Jefferson and Washington, for example, because those men owned slaves and did not manumit them.

And the truth is that nearly all Democratic pundits, spokespeople, and office-holders have come to at least tacitly accept the indigenista racism of the Children of Zinn and the associated position on Columbus and the European peopling of the Americas, in many cities replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.

But it is not the view of the overwhelming majority of Democratic voters, nor even of majorities of black voters, nor indeed of white voters in general, that the very existence of our country and its entire history should be publicly regarded as crimes, as polling in connection with the removal of Confederate monuments has shown.

And that makes this a good issue for Trumpists and Republicans in general to focus on.