The white supremacists who marched on Charlottesville, who erect confederate monuments, who dress up like little boys playing knight with dangerous, grown-up weapons, profess a passion for all things medieval, but they really aren’t interested in learning about history. Instead, they want to live in a fantasy world in which the most important and most powerful people look exactly like the image they see staring back at them in the mirror. And they want to rest of us to be forced to live in that world too.
