I'm glad that leftists won't come out to denounce AntiFa. It makes their chances minimal in the 18 and 20 elections. Interesting Times article which is just an echo of what many of us have been saying here already:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/monuments-confederacy-remove-rename.html?platform=hootsuite&mtrref=t.co
The disputes over America’s racial past and public symbols have proliferated with dizzying speed, spreading to states far beyond the Confederacy and inspiring campaigns by minorities and political progressives across the country.
But along the way, they have become to some an example of politically correct sentiments gone too far, with the potential to mobilize the right and alienate the center.
I
n polls taken since Charlottesville, majorities of Americans favor keeping Confederate monuments intact, although there are sharp splits by race and party affiliation. Pluralities of Democrats and blacks favor removal, while whites and Republicans oppose altering the status quo. Support for changing street names and other less tangible symbols falls off sharply. That has not stopped Democrats in the Maryland General Assembly from trying to change lyrics to the state song, “Maryland, My Maryland,” a mid-19th-century ditty that calls on Maryland to join the Confederacy.
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia who watched neo-Nazis march on his own campus,
said the left seems to have once again become focused on symbolic issues rather than the ones that most voters care about.