Democrats say Confederate monuments are now white-supremacist rallying points

Washington • Leading Democrats on Sunday morning talk shows defended moves by local governments to remove monuments of Confederate leaders, saying that the unrest in Charlottesville last week showed that the statues had become rallying points for white supremacists instead of educational tools about the nation’s history.Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said President Donald Trump “got this wrong” when he expre