I’m not a fan of most of this renaming stuff...but why in the hell would be name a ship after a U.S. battlefield defeat in the first place? I’m fine with the statues, etc., but battles that were lost just seems weird.
Point is, libtards all over social media are currently crying how Hegseth is violating a longstanding Navy tradition by renaming a ship when they themselves were doing it barely two years ago, and should be reminded as such.
Because the South is a significant part of the country too and part of the reconciliation between the regions was honoring the South's victories and leaders too. Because the Left has a blinding hatred of the South, they've been engaged in a years-long holy crusade to try to obliterate the South's history. Thus they tore down statues, wanted to rename bases and ships etc etc. They became extremely bitter when the South went Republican.
The USS Lexington was named for (arguably) a defeat, as was the USS Bunker Hill, and although it wasn't named for a battle, the USS Valley Forge commemorates the aftermath of a series of defeats. The novelist James Michener noted the curious American obsession with military defeats (think Pearl Harbor Day and "remember the Alamo"), so in his novel The Bridges of Toko-Ri, he named a fictional warship the USS Savo after a 1942 naval defeat.