Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has appointed a historian to the state Board of Historic Resources who has defended the state’s Confederate monuments and condemned their destruction as a “dangerous” rewriting of history, the Washington Post reports.
Youngkin Appoints Confederate Statue Defender to Board
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