NYC Liberals Try to Erase Teddy Roosevelt Again Now They Want to Dictate to North Dakota Too

The Left’s war on American history is getting more ridiculous by the day. First, they come for the statues—heroes, Presidents, pioneers—tearing them down over accusations of racism or some woke fever dream about “white supremacy.” Robert E. Lee’s monument got melted down. Now, they’ve managed to run Theodore Roosevelt out of New York City, shipping his statue off to North Dakota, like history itself is some kind of contagious disease.

But it isn’t enough for liberals in New York to remove the statue from their precious institutions. Even after demanding Roosevelt be erased from their city, they still think they have a say in how he gets honored somewhere else. The American Museum of Natural History yanked the statue, but now wants a “trigger warning” slapped on it in its new home out west. They demand “advisory councils” packed with activists to police how North Dakota explains a beloved president’s legacy. Apparently, erasing history wasn’t enough—they want to rewrite what’s left, too.

All this because today’s progressive elites look at a statue and see only racism and bigotry. Teddy Roosevelt literally created the national parks and expanded conservation. But to the radical Left, none of that matters. They twist a work of art’s meaning just to fit their latest narrative. Forget pride, forget American achievement—if a statue doesn’t fit their narrow, guilt-obsessed view, it gets exiled.

Who actually benefits from these sick games? It isn’t Native Americans, African Americans, or any group progressives say they care about. It’s about flexing control—showing that even a piece of American history in the remote Badlands still needs New York’s virtue police issuing orders from afar. These people claim to fight for “diversity” and “inclusion,” but in reality? They destroy anything that doesn’t match their worldview.

North Dakota should do what every red-blooded American wants to say: tell New York to stuff it. The Big Apple tossed Roosevelt out—they have no right to control how he’s remembered now. Maybe New York liberals should focus on fixing their own city instead of bossing around the Heartland. Isn’t that as American as it gets?

Source: Townhall