Far-left activist and Charlottesville Democrat mayor Michael Signer, already infamous for recommending Charlottesville should be a "sanctuary" for illegal alien felons, for declaring in January that Charlottesville is the "Capital of the Resistance" to duly elected President Donald Trump, and for having police remove anyone who challenges him by speaking up during City Council meetings, now aims to remove all traces of the fact that patriotic Virginians fought for their right to self-determination -– their right to secede from the union — 150 years ago.

That caused some blowback (as did his failed "Muslim sanctuary" plan), so the mayor promptly blamed his city's recent violent troubles on Donald Trump, of course, recycling the tired cliché that the New York developer (who has never been shown to have discriminated against blacks or any other minority in hiring or in customer service at any point in his 50-year business career) is a "racist."