Patriot my hind end.  He was a traitor and should have known better.  The statues never went up for the war, they went up when Jim Crow was established and reconstruction ended.  They were a symbol of racist power and they are coming down.  Obama brought quite a few local civil rights leaders with him into government, just as Wilson brought the segregationists.  Trump is making sure that the Alt-Right is so marginalized that they won't be gaining power any time soon.