MTG Takes to the House Floor to Argue Statue of Robert E Lee Should Not Have Been Removed

Conservatives are taking their fight against the new cultural puritans to new levels.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took to the House floor on Thursday night in support of an amendment that would ban federal funds from being used to take down statues on land under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department.

“There should be no funds allocated to remove any monument and there’s no necessary reason to remove the monuments,” Greene stated.

She went on, “This is the Democrats’ and the Biden administration’s effort to erase our history, just as they have done to the statue of Robert E. Lee. This is an outrage. This is exactly what they do in communist countries and the Democrats want to accuse us of book burning while we try to get pornography books out of our children’s schools? The Democrats will do nothing to stop their attempts to destroy our nation’s history and we must protect it.”

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The desire to protect a statue of Lee is somewhat understandable. As a historic figure, he is unique in his motivations.

Historian Allen C. Guelzo pointed out in his biography of Lee, he did not support slavery or think there was a Constitutional basis for it. Still, he knew fighting for the Confederacy would protect the institution.

Yet his sense of duty to his state of Virginia and an unwillingness to fight against fellow Virginians led him to join the Confederacy.

At the end of the Civil War, Lee did a service to the country by surrendering and not trying to prolong the conflict despite what he saw as barbaric and cruel behavior by the Union Army.