This is one in which the limiting principle is clear. This statue was erected in 1896, 64 years after Calhoun left office, and against the backdrop of an effort to purge black officeholders from political life. It's service wasn't to history but an odious contemporary cause. https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1275785243488894976

The constitution was amended in 1895, effectively disenfranchising black voters, and, in 1896, Ben Tillman's contingent was actively lobbying for primary election rules that would lock African-American candidates out of office. The statue is evocative of that period, not 1830s.

But illustrating this limiting principle forecloses on the logic espoused by the revisionist wing of the Democratic Party today, which are as active in the streets as they are in institutions. Their pure iconoclasm observes no limiting principle and would devour US history whole.

The right, which saw all this coming years ago, was mocked by those who suffer a terrible failure of imagination and have romanticized their side's fanatics. They were right, their critics were wrong, and the consequences are terrible. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/noah-rothman/why-the-right-foresaw-the-statues-coming-down/