Why is being called a racist one the worse things to call a white person; even the white supremacists/neo-nazis will deny they're racist?  If it walk/talks like a duck, why deny its a duck?  

45 has a history of racist behaviour, no surprise to those who have been the victims of it; but amplified now to the rest of the world.  He may not be a white supremacist but he has those tendencies and plays to/uses their discourse.  It's certainly a heuristic device understanding his behaviour - his obvious disdain for blacks/browns ("what the h** do you have to lose", not wanting them to count his money), obsession with BO.  'He' suddenly made sense to me last week when I looked at it through a ws, 'we' are superior to 'you' lens.  

Lets not pretend monuments mean the same to everyone, so using that to make your argument about 2/3 of Americans is muddying the waters.  I suspect most of this 2/3s dont know little if anything about the context/history/when/why they went up in the first place.