If you all want to focus on the present why is it important to take down  monuments from our past?  Should we burn books too?   The basis of removing the statues is based on the past so you can't have it both ways. The  https://www.democrats.org/about/our-history site omits all of its history prior to the 1920's as if they can forget it and everyone is supposed to accept it since it's in the past. It's not okay to just ignore history or pretend it didn't happen or we will repeat it again but the non-tolerant party of love continues to spin things any way they can.  The whole idea of radical groups like the Nazi's, White Supremacists, Antifas and BLM is deplorable and ALL of them should be condemned which is the premise of Jennifer Kern's article.  It's healthy for us to disagree about our politics but careful labeling All Repubs racist and they don't care about People.  The hateful rhetoric must stop and we should check our egos at the door and work things out for the good of the many.