“If you want to see where tearing down statues by mobs will get you, look at pictures of China’s cultural revolution where they tore down statues, temples.”
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Of course in Mao's case you had the "great leap forward," where aged intellectuals from the coast were forcibly removed to the boondocks and deliberately worked to death in the fields.
America's Trump haters are still in the learning stages of how to abuse others. We will ignore this at our most severe peril.