When is congress expected to approve funding for a new construction? I wonder whether some on the fringe right will try to make a political stunt with it. I wouldn't be surprised at all.
I predict that there will be a highly publicized name change of the bridge, which will provoke a "national discussion", a further "reckoning with our history", and more blathering and anger from the right.
He was a slaveowner. Like, that doesn't mean the bridge needs to be renamed, but talk of America being in collapse over the thought of someone renaming a bridge who's namesake's only contribution to offset the whole "owned slaves" thing was a song is an overreaction.
