Not a chance that a Dem President takes this on. The political cost would almost guarantee a one term presidency.
Of all the challenges and controversies facing thous country today I find it hard to believe that that many people would really care much about this pretty minor issue, at all. I think it would be met with a collective
shrug by the vast majority of Americans.
Feel free to read my initial post on this topic. I don’t care if they change the names, I simply put out a warning that the reason for their naming is deeper than the simplistic, binary reason others are presenting. I also noted that starting here will open a rather tragic future of re-naming that will reach far deeper than Washington and Jefferson. All of your WWI, WWII...heroes will all be torn down just as quickly as Bragg, or any other. Most of the people involved in this effort know exactly what they are doing...in my business it is called controlling the narrative...they are not attacking the terrain of “truth” or “discovering “actual” history, they are attacking the map. They are trying to tear down what they imagine is the cherished history of a voting bloc that does not agree with them. They are not the first, you allude to it with the Lost Cause types did it in the early 20th Century. The history they are producing will be as vacant and empty as that it is replacing.
Or maybe it is about simple fairness, that maybe we shouldn't be have US Army bases named after folks who betrayed that very institution and their country. Certainly there are a few folks who might have a larger agenda but I support it and I certainly don't. Not everything is some giant agenda to change the world, sometimes it is just doing the right thing.
You’re forgetting the fact that they all resigned their United States commissions and formally/publicly renounced their loyalty to the United States prior to joining the Confederate forces.
The way the acted was considered honorable and above board at the time.
By some, yes, but they were rightfully viewed as traitors by others.
A very large part of me agrees with you. But (there's the "but, or however") I wasn't alive in the 1860s. Or in the previous millennia, where slavery was the norm in the world....But keep judging them by 2020 standards. I'm sure if you were born in the south in the 1830s, you would have made the "right" decision.
Slavery by the time of the Civil War was in fact widely condemned and seen by many as the horrible practice it was, having been ended in all the states north of the Mason-Dixon by 1847 and banned in every European country by the 1840's. A big part of the reason the UK never officially supported the south even they were sympathetic was because the confederate cause basically boiled down to defending slavery, which the UK had banned in 1834.
Even if you do make the argument that we can't judge them by today's standards there is still no reason for us today to honor those men whose main claim to fame as soldiers, and the reason those bases are named after them,
is that they fought to preserve slavery. None. At. All.