It didn't start in Charlottesville, but it has accelerated after the events there: the removal of monuments to Confederate figures, other symbols of the Confederacy, and political figures representative of racism in America.  This purging of American history is being perpetrated by Democrats, and ironically, the monuments they are so quickly tearing down are monuments to Democrat heroes of yore – men like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis.  These men were leaders of the Confederacy, and the Confederacy was one hundred percent Democrat. Democrats supported slavery, and in the years leading up to the Civil War, a faction of the Democratic Party left and formed the Republican Party.  The new Republicans held their first nominating convention in June of 1856, and in May, the violence began in earnest.  Just prior to the convention, two Democrat senators from South Carolina, Preston Brooks and Lawrence Keitt, brutally attacked and nearly...(Read Full Post)