"In all of this controversy, there is an opportunity here for President Trump to take initiative to prove he is a different kind of leader. A good approach to helping the nation heal would be for Republicans and Democrats to work together to remove all Civil War-related statues – Union and Confederacy alike – from taxpayer-funded public places in an organized, systematic way, and establish a series of Civil War museums around the country where they could reside.
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I learned my lesson with the Confederate flag in Columbia. Months and months of take-down-this-flag-you-racists before they reached a “compromise” with the explicit promise of “do this and we’ll stop boycotting/protesting/etc. and everybody will be happy. The compromise in question was to take the flag off the State House and display it in a reasonably nice memorial on the State House grounds.
Less than three days later, the boycott and protests were back in effect because the flag was still on the grounds. I will never trust a liberal compromise again.