So will George Washington now lose his status?” the president asked Tuesday. “Are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson?”
It’s a good question — no doubt the question for many Americans. It’s not that the alt-left has already got its noose around statues of Washington, but the leftist-outrage industry does move fast.
Even in New York.
Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Wednesday, “New York City will conduct a 90-day review of all symbols of hate on city property.”
Protesters have already swarmed the statue of Teddy Roosevelt at the Museum of Natural History. They reckon it’s a symbol of white supremacy.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind wants to remove two concrete markers honoring French World War I heroes. De Blasio agreed. One of those “will be one of the first we remove,” said the mayor.
Should the president be blamed for keeping a weather eye out for the good name of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
It’s hard, after all, to imagine that the hard-core left has any noble purposes in this violence. The first figure arrested in Durham was picked up after a press conference of the World Workers Party, a Marxist melange that stuck with the Soviets through Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Lately they’ve been on the barricades defending — wait for it — North Korea.
It takes a lot of Communist commitment to believe Trump is worse than Kim Jong Un. There’s no reason to imagine that the left is going to settle for a few statues of Lee.
The left wants to attack the very legitimacy of America, of which Washington is the real symbol. And going after statues and other cultural icons is part of the Marxist playbook.
It was written about by George Orwell in his dystopian novel “1984,” a quote from which is making the rounds this week.
In it, one of Orwell’s characters warns of how “every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.”
“And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute,” adds Orwell’s character. “History has stopped.”
http://nypost.com/2017/08/16/a-warning-from-george-orwell-on-the-monument-wars/