Interior secretary confirms feds monitoring protesters' social media feeds

WASHINGTON — 1130 WISN is a conservative talk radio station in southeastern Wisconsin and, by dint of its reach, is not a regular stop for high-level White House officials. But as it happens, southeastern Wisconsin’s swing counties, which voted for Donald Trump in 2016, are critical for his reelection chances.

Which may explain why late last week, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt appeared on the 1130 WISN talk show of conservative commentator Vicki McKenna to discuss an issue seemingly unrelated to local concerns: the tearing down of Confederate and other statues by antiracism protesters. The president believes that preserving those statues could be a potent campaign message, and Bernhardt was reinforcing that message in a state where Confederate imagery is scant.

That hardly mattered to Bernhardt, who condemned protesters for “destroying everything that America holds dear,” describing them as “unified in the message of destruction.” He made no distinction between those who had legitimate concerns with Confederate iconography and those who vandalized statues or memorials that had no obvious connection to the history of American racism.

“You erase somebody’s history,” McKenna said at one point, “and all of the great things that are about this country, a generation or two from now, are now gone.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/interior-secretary-calls-confederate-statue-protesters-baddoers-confirms-feds-are-monitoring-their-social-media-feeds-160351551.html

Yep. He clearly thinks racism and treason are great American values.