This gives them quite a wedge.
Republicans, Trump in the lead, will promise to put the statues back up.
He might even do it tonight.
What will Democrats do?
They can't win elections without a good piece of the white vote.
They have to open a big space between themselves and all this.
They have embraced removal of statues of Confederates and renaming of government property, but not removal of statues of all slaveowners, Columbus, or other explorers.
What will Biden do or say?
San Francisco protesters topple statues of Ulysses Grant and other slave owners
On Friday night in San Francisco, protesters tore down and defaced statues of white men who enslaved black and indigenous people – among them Ulysses S Grant, the 18th president who in the civil war led the Union armies in the defeat of the slave-owning Confederacy.
Video posted on social media and by local news outlets showed a small crowd in Golden Gate Park cheering as people toppled the statues with rope, covered them with red paint and, in at least one instance, dragged them through the grass.
Statues of Father Junípero Serra and Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star-Spangled Banner, were also brought down.
Grant was the last US president to have personally owned another human being.
And this isn't helping, either.
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