This regime is firing women and minorities, is militarily occupying or threatening to occupy cities that have black mayors, disappearing immigrants, opening concentration camps and now they plan to restore a painting of Robert E. Lee with a slave guiding Lee's horse in the background. The portrait is 20 feet tall.
As the NYT put it: "The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery."
They're also restoring military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, who was killed while trying to overthrow the US government; many of her fellow rioters waved the flag of the Confederacy inside the US Capitol, something the actual Confederates were unable to achieve. Giving her these honors is like dancing on the grave of democracy. The window to stop the destruction of the progress that has been made towards the ideals of human rights and democracy this country is supposed to stand for and strive towards is closing.
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