In Charlottsville, VA, there was a huge rally of white supremacists, Nazis, and random Republicans who showed up with tiki torches to fight mosquitoes and the taking down of a statue of the Confederate traitor General Robert E Lee.
In Lexington, KY, the mayor said that after the tragedy in VA, all Confederate statues would be coming down.
In North Carolina, protesters pulled down a statue of a Confederate Soldier.
Seeing a pattern here?
Finally, Americans are waking up to the fact that the Civil War was not nostalgic, but a huge black eye on our History. The Civil War was a few states were AntiAmerican traitors who attacked America from within. in the four years of the Civil War, 620,000 Americans were killed. All so some rich white people would be allowed to keep slaves and get free labor.
However, unsurprisingly, RightWisconsin, now run by Jamie Wigderson, looks at the Confederate Statues coming down as an opportunity to rid our history of Progressives.
It’s time for the statue of Robert La Follette at the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol to come down. While we’re at it, let’s remove the bust of La Follette from the Capitol in Madison as well. There will be protests. But let’s face it, the Progressive Era is over. Thank God.* I guess the self proclaimed "never Trumper" is now "all Trump all the time".
Wisconsin is now a red state, won fairly by former Governor Tommy Thompson (three times), Governor Scott Walker (three times) and President Donald Trump*. We re-elected a conservative senator in a presidential year, Ron Johnson, when every pundit said it couldn’t be done. The majority of our representation to Congress is conservative. Conservatives control the state Assembly and the state Senate with record numbers, and conservatives even control the state Supreme Court 5-2.
Most people see that it is time we stop fantasizing the Confederacy and realize it is a racist, black mark and tragic time in America and stop honoring the traitors of the South.
Not Right Wisconsin, they feel since some "snowflakes" want some statues removed, that now would be a good time to rid ourselves of Wisconsin's Progressive past.
Since this is a borderline racist column, full of dog whistles, it is only fitting that they recommend that Judge William Rehnquisr and Tommy Thompson be the statues that we replace Fighting Bob with.
Rehnquist's legacy is one of suppressing African American and Latino voters, so of course he would be a favorite of Jimmy Wigdersons.
Wiggy also mentioned Tommy Thompson as a second statue for WISGOP to put up. Since he was one of the most vociferous voices for the individual mandate in Obamacare, I could live with that.
However, since it is Jimmy Wigderson we are discussing, let me nominate two people for statues who better embody the true spirit of the WISGOP:
1. Has to be Joe Mccarthy. No one embodies WISGOP values of paranoia, hatred, BS and outright lies than McCarthy.
2. I would recommend, someone Wiggy has mentioned as the perfect rep = Wild Bill Kramer!
Yes we did not think it possible, but "White Wisconsin ---- Now even Whiter!!!"
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