The Left was always going to target statues of Washington and Jefferson

As if to prove the point that legacy media rely on “historians” to score political points, the New York City Council will remove a statue of former President Thomas Jefferson despite repeated assurances that no one would do such a thing.

Back in 2017, we were assured that such a move was not on the horizon. NBC News wrote a piece titled “Statues of Washington, Jefferson Aren’t ‘Next,’ But It’s Complicated, Historians Say.” The Washington Post went for a far snarkier version: “Historians: No, Mr. President, Washington and Jefferson are not the same as Confederate generals.”