If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may offer you something that also has symbolic value in the fight for freedom. Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up in the nation’s capital.

Just like the wall that separated free, capitalist West Berlin from communist East Berlin and East Germany had been a symbol of Marxist tyranny (communist authorities erected it to prevent escapes to the west and placed guards there to shoot dead those who tried), the plaza was a symbol of the hysteria that gripped many Americans after the BLM riots in 2020.