A.G. Gancarski
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott burnished his right-wing bona fides Tuesday with a late-afternoon ode to statues of President Andrew Jackson.
Jackson, best known for signing the Indian Removal Act, has been memorialized on statues and in the names of cities throughout the country.
In 2020, the Jacksonian legacy has led to impromptu historical reconsideration by groups of activist citizens, many of whom have taken action against the statues.
These attacks strike Sen. Scott, a first-term Republican from Naples, as erasures of history itself.
A Tuesday afternoon Tweet found the Senator defending monuments against the depredations of “liberal politicians” and “the mob” they enable.
“How are [Washington D.C.] Mayor [Muriel] Bowser and liberal politicians around the country allowing the mob to commit these crimes with impunity? Anarchy is unacceptable,” Scott said.
“We will not tolerate the Left’s continued attempts to erase our history. Where will it end? We need to bring order back to our country.”
Scott was reacting to a slideshow of photos of protesters taking issue with a statue of Jackson in Washington D.C.’s Lafayette Park, posted on the conservative National Review Online.
While the D.C. defacement looms largest in the national consciousness, a city in Northeast Florida likewise is wrestling with lionizing the increasingly problematic historical figure.
Jacksonville’s Andrew Jackson statue continues to be vandalized with red spray paint, a signal that it may be decision time for city leaders regarding the edifice.
“Remember May 28 1830,” Tuesday morning’s paint job read, a reference to the aforementioned Indian Removal Act, a genocidal edict that pushed Native American tribes onto the Trail of Tears, where many who started the journey west died en route.
Scott, a Senator who typically does not stray too far from President Donald Trump, issued these comments in the wake of the President’s vow to defend monuments.
The President promises an Executive Order to reinforce current law prohibiting the defacement of monuments on federal lands.
How are Mayor Bowser and liberal politicians around the country allowing the mob to commit these crimes with impunity?
Anarchy is unacceptable. We will not tolerate the Left’s continued attempts to erase our history. Where will it end? We need to bring order back to our country. https://t.co/5NzSRt8s5g
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) June 23, 2020
6 comments
Bryan J Smith
June 23, 2020 at 6:49 pm
I don’t think it’s right-wing to topple private statues on private property donated by private individuals and maintained by private funds. If there is one thing that is continuing to bother me, it’s how much public v. private is being utterly ignored. Not all of these statues are public, and the ownership has been purposely overlooked.
Also, if ‘Columbus’ and ‘Columbia’ is now banned, what about the District of Columbia (DC)? And what about the Apollo 11 Command Module ‘Columbia’ in the Smithsonian?
Mel Thomas
June 23, 2020 at 9:31 pm
How do you like Democrat Socialism? just like the third world isn’t it. Democrat Governor’s & Mayors ordering Police to stand down while the city is looted, burned citizens beaten in the streets. police stations actually taken over and allowed to occupy.
What do these Mayors & Governors have in common?………
Tom Wolf (Gov PA), Jim Kenney (Mayor Philadelphia), JB Pritzker (Gov Il), Lori Lightfoot (Mayor Chicago), Gavin Newsom (Gov CA) Kate Brown (Gov OR), Ted Wheeler (Mayor Portland OR), Jay Inslee (Gov WA), Jenny Durkan (Mayor Seattle), Andrew Cuomo (Gov NY), Bill Di Blasio, (Mayor NY) Tim Walz (Gov MN) Jacob Frey (Mayor MN), Lyda Krewson (Mayor St. Louis), Gretchen Whitmer (Gov MI), Mike Duggan (Mayor Detroit) , Keisha Bottoms (Mayor Atlanta GA)
All are Democrats who kept the economy in their states and cities closed as long as they could (many still are) and ordered Police in their cities to stand down.
There is no moderate wing of the Democrat party people and they really don’t care about taxpayers except for their vote. If you vote for Joe Biden, you are voting for Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren’s far left platform.. Joe will follow the radical left’s agenda or Joe won’t get the support (and he is of) Nancy Pelosi, Val Demings, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Valerie Jarrett,. Rashida Talib, Stacy Abrams, Ayanna Pressley, Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson Lee, Tom Perez, Maxine Waters, Al Green, and llhan Omar.
This is the core of the socialists leftist wing of the Democrat party in Washington and they are firmly in charge.
Democrat Platform & Goals: Democrats want to make this election all about President Trump. NOT their platform & Goals. At least know who & what you are voting for.
*End all deportations of illegal aliens, if you get here, you stay. Bernie’s website calls it a “moratorium” on deportations.
*Citizenship for 20 to 50 million illegal aliens, DACA & TPS recipients with a cost of billions.
*Massive tax increases. All Democrat candidates have committed to tax increases of various amounts.
*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Green new deal.(which would create massive unemployment, 100,000 jobs estimated in the transportation industry alone.) Joe Biden supports.
*De-fund & terminate border patrol & ICE.
*Free Health Care for Illegal aliens, DACA, TPS recipients (taxpayer funded with one estimate at 52 trillion)
*Ending of all private / employer based health care. “Medicare for all”, Feds run everything.
*Illegal Aliens eligible for welfare & food stamps. (Elizabeth Warrens plan adopted)
*Reparations for race’s harmed by Caucasians. Joe Biden committed to “Reverend” Al Sharpton’s, support for Sheila Jackson Lee’s racist reparations bill in the House. Basically a tax will be levied on all Caucasians in America. (you can’t make this stuff up)
*Sanctuary Cities & States. Joe Biden supports sanctuary city’s.
*Free college for all, including illegal aliens (taxpayer funded estimates in the billions. Bernie Sanders plan adopted.
*Decriminalization of illegal entry into our country.
*Open Borders.
*Drivers Licenses for illegal aliens (already happening in states with Democrat leadership.
*Late term abortions up to 9 months.
*Ending of all private / employer based health care. “Medicare for all”, Feds run everything.
*DACA & TPS citizenship.
* Destruction and erasing our history.
DisplacedCTYankee
June 24, 2020 at 7:11 am
Sen Scott needs to look up “anarchy” in a dictionary.
Sonja Fitch
June 24, 2020 at 7:52 am
As if the killer of old and sick folks is credible. Stfu Rick Scott
Just sayin'
June 24, 2020 at 8:31 am
You spelled “Cuomo” wrong, dear. It’s a tricky name, I know.
PeterH
June 24, 2020 at 10:07 am
Monuments to miserable hateful racist dictators have been banished by civilized societies for thousands of years. It may be time to remove monuments to slave apologist and genocidal murderers of America’s native inhabitants. The monuments serve no real purpose and often have narrative inscriptions that are historically ‘fake news!’
50% of the signatories to our Constitution were slave holders …… let’s seize this opportunity and end the celebration of their existence. Let’s end the haunted residential vaults of Monticello and Washington’s home overlooking the Potomac.
The USA is overdue for a new awakening….. we can remember and reject our soiled past in history books ….. we don’t need home and monument tours to celebrate what most Americans despise.
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