Youngkin picked a doozy for the Virginia Board of Historic Resources
https://bluevirginia.us/2022/07/audio-gov-youngkins-new-appointee-to-the-va-board-of-historic-resources-says-robert-e-lee-was-a-morally-fine-human-being-secession-was-not-treason-the-norths-invasion-of-the-sout
The other day, I wrote about Gov. Glenn Youngkins new, Confederate-monuments-defending appointment to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. Among other things, Youngkins appointee, Ann McLean, claimed that Thomas Jefferson really loved many of the people that he cared for and his laborers; claimed that criticism of Jefferson is going back to Karl Marx; cited a debunked book about Jefferson by Christian nationalist David Barton; etc. So this morning, McLean went on right-wing talk radio (WRVA) and had some more, er, interesting things to day, this time about the push by Sen. Tim Kaine and Rep. Don Beyer to end Arlington Houses Robert E. Lee Memorial designation. According to McLean:
Robert E. Lee was a morally fine human being who understood the constitution of 1787.
The constitution was broken when Lincoln called up 75,000 troops to fight against secession. And, she added, secession was not treason
each state was allowed to secede, we all had seceded from Britain
each state was like its own country, so Lee considered Virginia his country.
Invasion, just like we see Russia invading Ukraine, invading a new territory was wrong. And so many people want to just flatten the whole Civil War to slavery, and of course we know slavery is not good. But I think
slavery would have been outlawed in the South within 5 or 10 years, but they wanted to do it on their time.
Again, Youngkin appointed this Confederacy apologist who among other things minimizes the importance of slavery and compares the United States under Abraham Lincoln to Russia under Vladimir Putin to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources! So next time you read some idiot journalist blabbering on about how Youngkins some sort of sane moderate whos not Trump-like at all, just remember that hes made numerous extreme appointments to his administration (e.g., Elizabeth Schultz, Andrew Wheeler, Dr. Marty Makary, Colin Greene, Casey Flores, etc.), including this one!