Look, the Civil War ended over 150 years go and the good guys won. The English have a statue of Cromwell and King Charles (opposite sides of their civil war) a stone’s throw from each other. Indeed, not 25 yards from Nelson’s Column is a statue to a very famous British traitor and driver of slaves...George Washington. Somehow they get by. Somehow, a mere 75 years after the world’s greatest holocaust “We the People” are able to buy Mercedes Benz and Toyota automobiles...blissfully forgetting that both were major manufacturers of Nazi and Imperial Japanese military equipment. Somehow, despite the fact that only one political party in the US supported slavery, secession, Jim Crow, and New Jim Crow...Democrats...we are still able to vote for democrats!
If we need to divest ourselves of a long and terrifying element of history maybe we should do away with that political party? After all Davis, Lee, Jackson, Bedford Forest, Bragg, Bennning, and Hood were all...democrats.