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.”