"The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution." Anyone who can pretend with a straight face that this sudden campaign is anything but contrived is impossibly naive. The statues aren't the issue. The ability of organized political activists to tear down anything they want to and crush any opposition is the issue. The ability to command the narrative is the issue: "X is a symbol of Y and therefore must be destroyed" will not stop at stone, it's aimed at flesh.
“This will not stop at stone, it’s aimed at flesh.”
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