Like our President, Tucker Carlson will say anything to please his base. Lately, he has been doing a bit of fear-mongering. He is quoted on CNN: 

“This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about black lives … And remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will. Anyone who has ever been subjected to the rage of the mob knows the feeling. It’s like being swarmed by hornets. You cannot think clearly.”

I think that perhaps Mr. Carlson, who can think quite clearly in his own self-interest, is trying to incite a “mob” to boost his ratings. What Carlson is doing is, in my view, the equivalent of shouting “fire” in a crowded theater.

When a society has gone terribly wrong, one of the things it is likely to do when it recovers is to get rid of the memorials of the persons and events of its shameful past.

Anyone who has spent any time in Germany has seen evidences of the thorough removal of Nazi symbols from public view. Monuments to the heroes of the Confederacy are not memorials of courage and devotion. They are, rather, the propaganda of unrepentant white supremacism. If the monuments of white supremacism in Germany had to go, so too must the monuments of white supremacism in the United States.