Mythology masquerading as history

Last week, the Republican president of the Florida Senate killed a bill that would have punished local officials who oversaw the removal of Confederate monuments from their municipalities. The bill was just one of many promoted by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who prides himself on remaking Florida into the state “where woke goes to die.”

The bill might have made it to the Senate floor for a vote were it not for a public hearing of the Community Affairs Committee, where a witness, attorney Char...