The British Government knows who its enemies are: Housing Minister Robert Jenrick has attacked the "woke worthies and town hall militants" trying to remove statues, while Jacob Rees-Mogg has criticised the "woke brigade". But statues and street names don't actually matter. They are a proxy for the far more important issue of diversity and demography; perhaps people worry about statues of dead Englishmen disappearing from city centres because they worry about Englishmen disappearing from those cities . America's iconoclastic spasm is certainly related to the country's transformation from an overwhelmingly European country to a multicultural liberal caliphate, a bold experiment which is yet to produce its end results. African-Americans, though small in number and in relative overall decline, are a totemic group for the multicultural "Blue Tribe", and their all-American narrative of slavery and redemption echoes the country's Christian ideals.
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