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Carnage, Monday, August 19, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

I begin by saying that I think of the American flag with affection, respect, and sorrow.

I think of what it used to represent, what it ought to represent,

and what it periodically still represents.

The sorrow has to do with what our ruling elites are insisting that it

must come to represent. And the grief is over their many successes in that endeavor. Despite

this, I do not yet believe the American flag is a lost cause.

Take that as the starting point.

But if our rule in these matters must be the logic of those demanding that any and all vestiges of the Confederacy come down, we will soon enough discover that this is a knife that can cut in all kinds of directions.

In all of this, the issue is not so much what you do as why you

were doing it. If you admit a false principle into the settlement of public disputes like

this one, and I hate to be the one to bring you

the sorrowful tidings, the false principle does not disappear when the dispute does.

It remains there, propped up in the corner, cocked and loaded, waiting for the next dispute.

And because of the times we live in, there will be a next dispute, probably in about three weeks.

None of this has anything whatever to do with a desire for a do-over at Gettysburg.

I am carrying no water for a neo-Confederate anything. If you think I am,

then that simply means that you are not grasping at a point that is dangerous to miss.

I am not fighting yesterday's battles. I am fighting today's

battles and some of tomorrow's. If you want me to believe that the flag in South

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