In years past, the Political Right in America has defended the Confederacy’s reputation and statues, arguing that if those statues were taken down, then others would follow. This year’s iconoclasm has proven these arguments accurate beyond any doubt. However, now that the statues are gone, it is time for the Political right to abandon its pro-Confederacy neutralism, and embrace the Radical Republicans instead. There is no benefit to clinging to the rotting corpse of the Confederacy, and it is the wrong solution to today’s problems.