I have had a consistent position on the renaming wars ever since the democrats went on their Kennedy worship binge after JFK’s assassinations. No renaming, at least of anything significant, until someone has been dead at least 50 years.
I’m willing to carve out exceptions recognizing heroic service. Commissioning The Sullivans in WWII is an iconic example. But the bar should be absolute for sitting politicos with God-King complexes.
I know, I know, there’s a lot of renaming to be done, starting with the Robert C. Byrd Porta-Potty in the Robert C. Byrd Memorial Park off the Robert C. Byrd Parkway; the wonder is that the whole state wasn’t renamed.
For someone who says he wants to drain the swamp, Trump’s obsession with Pharaonic monuments to himself is a tell. The swamp isn’t drained. And his name will come off everything he puts it on now about 15 minutes after the next democrat president is sworn in.
I don’t have a problem with naming things after people; we have airports named after Reagan and Dulles; NASA facilities named after astronauts and presidents. I just don’t like things re-named when they’ve carried a name for a long time.
Heck, I’m still calling the team here ‘The Redskins’; and I’m not alone.
But it does seem more appropriate to name things after people when they’ve passed, not while they’re still alive...