Meanwhile, the Democratic Governor of Virginia, who last year faced down a black-face scandal that earned him international ridicule, is reportedly expected to announce plans for the removal of an iconic confederate statue of Robert E Lee in Richmond. Of course, Northam could remove the statue and replace it with a replica of him wearing blackface, and liberals would still unquestionably see him as the more progressive and "less racist" candidate.

Plans to remove the statue, which has become a locus of demonstrators' ire given its association with the Confederacy and the confederacy's fight to preserve slavery...