• Fort Benning (Georgia) – Named after Confederate General Henry L. Benning, who fought against the Union armies at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg.
• Fort Lee (Virginia) – Named after Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. 
• Fort Bragg (North Carolina) – Named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg.

Republicans have also used “cancel culture” to denounce the ban imposed on former President Donald Trump by Facebook and Twitter.

Donald Trump

Throughout his Presidency, Trump had used Facebook—and especially Twitter—to attack and slander literally hundreds of people. 

Trump’s reign of Twitter insults ended abruptly after he instigated an attack on the United States Capitol Building on January 6. 

Desperate to stay in office by any means, he roused his legions of Stormtrumper followers to halt the counting of Electoral College votes certain to give former Vice President Joe Biden victory in the 2020 Presidential election.

Stormtrumpers attacking the Capitol Building

This treasonous behavior finally led Twitter to impose a permanent ban on Trump’s future tweets. Facebook quickly followed with a temporary ban of unspecified length.

Republicans were outraged. For decades they had aggressively demanded that corporations be free of government regulation. Now they demanded that Internet-related companies be stripped of their independence. 

Their outrage reflected their support for what would have been the greatest “cancel crime” in American history: Trump’s unprecedented attempt to cancel the votes of 80 million Americans for Joe Biden and remain in office for at least another four years.

And on May 20, Republicans proved their willingness to cancel legislation to protect Asian-Americans from a recent rise in attacks on them.

These attacks can be attributed directly to Donald Trump. Desperate to divert attention from his own indifference to the rising death toll from Coronavirus, throughout 2020 he repeatedly blamed China for “The China virus” and “The China plague.”

In October, Trump tested positive for COVID-19.

Republicans quickly blamed China.

The blame lay with Trump, who had refused to mask up or socially distance from others, as his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had recommended. 

But this didn’t stop Georgia Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler from tweeting: “China gave this virus to our President,” adding “WE MUST HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.”

And Blair Brandt, a Trump campaign fundraiser, claimed that the “Chinese Communist Party has biologically attacked our President.” 

Trump’s slanderous rhetoric—and the tensions it produced between the United States and China—has resulted in numerous attacks on Asian-Americans. In 2020, crimes targeting Asian Americans rose by 149% over those reported in 2019.

Introduced by Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act will:

• Expedite the review of hate crimes related to the pandemic;
• Expand the reporting of hate crimes to local and state agencies;
• Require the Justice Department to work with state and local agencies to address them.

In the United States Senate, Josh Hawley (R-MO) cast the only vote against the Act. 

“It’s too broad,” he said. “As a former prosecutor, my view is it’s dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents.”

In the House of Representatives 62 Republicans tried to cancel the legislation. 

Among these:

• Ohio’s Jim Jordan, who said falsely: “This violence, by and large, is happening in Democrat-controlled cities, many of which, interestingly enough, have defunded their police departments.” 
• Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said: “We can’t legislate away hate”—which was the same excuse Southern Republicans made to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

On May 20, President Biden signed the Act into law.

The following Republican House members joined Roy and Jordan in voting no: 

• Matt Gaetz (Florida)
• Lauren Boebert (Colorado)
• Mo Brooks (Alabama)
• Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia). 
• Robert Aderholt (Alabama)
• Rick Allen (Georgia)
• Jodey Arrington (Texas)
• Brian Babin (Texas)
• Jim Banks (Indiana)
• Andy Biggs (Arizona)
• Dan Bishop (North Carolina
• Ted Budd (North Carolina)
• Tim Burchett (Tennessee)
• Kat Cammack (Florida)
• Jerry Carl (Alabama)
• Madison Cawthorn (North Carolina)
• Michael Cloud (Texas)
• Andrew Clyde (Georgia
• Tom Cole (Oklahoma)
• Warren Davidson (Ohio)
• Byron Donalds (Florida)
• Jeff Duncan (South Carolina)
• Virginia Foxx (North Carolina)
• Louie Gohmert (Texas)
• Bob Good (Virginia)
• Lance Gooden (Texas)
• Paul Gosar (Arizona)
• Mark Green (Tennessee)
• Michael Guest (Mississippi)
• Andy Harris (Maryland)
• Diana Harshbarger (Tennessee)
• Kevin Hern (Oklahoma)
• Yvette Herrell (New Mexico)
• Jody Hice (Georgia)
• Clay Higgins (Louisiana)
• Ronny Jackson (Texas)
• Mike Johnson (Louisiana)
• Trent Kelly (Mississippi)
• Doug LaMalfa (California)
• Barry Loudermilk (Georgia)
• Nancy Mace (South Carolina)
• Tracey Mann (Kansas)
• Thomas Massie (Kentucky)
• Tom McClintock (California)
• Mary Miller (Illinois)
• Alexander Mooney (West Virginia)
• Barry Moore (Alabama)
• Ralph Norman (South Carolina)
• Steven Palazzo (Mississippi)
• Gary Palmer (Alabama)
• Scott Perry (Pennsylvania)
• August Pfluger (Texas)
• Tom Rice (South Carolina)
• John Rose (Tennessee)
• Matthew Rosendale (Montana)
• David Rouzer (North Carolina)
• John Rutherford (Florida)
• W. Gregory Steube (Florida)
• Thomas Tiffany (Wisconsin)
• Randy Weber (Texas)