Dennis Prager doesn’t have much nice to say at National Review Online about those who focus their attention on removing monuments.
All my life I have known this rule about people: Those who don’t fight the greatest evils will fight lesser evils or make-believe evils.
This happens to be the morally defining characteristic of the Left. During the Cold War, many liberals and nearly all conservatives fought Communism, but the Left fought anti-Communism. …
… With regard to fighting Communism — which, aside from Nazism, has been the greatest evil in the modern world (it killed and enslaved far more people than Nazism did) — the Left was an obstacle, not an ally. The Left in the West and elsewhere did far more to enable Communist evil than to stop it. …
… Therefore, if you have moral clarity, you are not on the left. If you have moral clarity, you can be a liberal, a conservative, a centrist, an atheist, a believer, a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a black, a white, a Latino, an Asian, a Native American, a gay, a straight, or a bisexual. But you cannot be a leftist.
The problem, however, is that people want to feel good about their own morality — and no one wants this more than the Left. They have written the proverbial book on moral self-esteem. Therefore, they do not merely believe that they are morally superior to all others; they know they are. …
… [N]ow we can add statues to the list. The left was AWOL against Communism, and it’s AWOL against Islamism. But it’s in the vanguard of fighting statues.