Move over Jeb, this afternoon Linsey Graham will join you in calling for the Confederate flag at the state capitol to be taken down and put in a museum.
This is a reversal from just yesterday when he refused to call for removal of the flag, saying instead,
"We're not going to give this a guy an excuse about a book he might have read or a movie he watched or a song he listened to or a symbol out anywhere. It's him ... not the flag,"
Maybe, just maybe, times are changing, if only a little. But given the role the Confederate flag has played in our politics, especially South Carolina Republican primary politics (talking about you, John McCain), this really would be a pretty big deal.
The only thing that amazes me is why supposedly intelligent people couldn't see this coming from the beginning. I guess appealing to racists is ingrained and old habits die hard.