Commission calls for stripping Robert E. Lee of honors at West Point

[xocetaceans]

42. That's quite similar to what I thought.

So, history now seems to show that a conciliatory approach towards the defeated Confederacy did not work (to wit, Jim Crow, etc) and that the Confederate symbology that remains seems just to act as a bolster for anti-US and anti-democratic political movements.

Anything named or otherwise established to honor any adherent to the Confederacy should be appropriately renamed or disestablished as soon as possible. One thing that could be done would be to melt all Confederate-honoring statues down and make monuments commemorating the victims of lynchings: these monuments could then be appropriately placed in the towns that allowed such atrocities to occur.

More importantly now, since it's clear that conciliation does not work, the 1/6 Insurrectionists should be treated as absolutely harshly as possible - starting with Trump and his coterie of lackeys like Giuliani, Flynn and Lindell et al. They deserve prison for trying to overturn an election by the use of violence and by the continued incitement of that violence. [Just yesterday, Trump effectively asked for his reinstatement as President as a "remedy".]