They pulled down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in Portland last night. We ought to be less concerned about whose statue was pulled down this time and more concerned about the undemocratic mob action of pulling down any statue at all -- and getting away with it.
If a majority of voters in Portland or their duly elected representatives on the city council decide to remove a statue from city property, let them do so. That's called democracy in action. But if a bunch of black-clad Antifa activists/thugs and indigenous-people-supporting violent protesters choose to take the law into their own hands, they should be arrested and charged with the crimes they've committed.
This should not be a partisan issue. It really is fundamentally about the rule of law. And if we lose that distinction and stop honoring that value, then our future as a nation really is in jeopardy.