Not to ignore: @jeffsessions says his choice to stake his candidacy on defending Confederate names of US military bases is “not a little thing.” He is correct. Unlike @realDonaldTrump who pretends that the issue is the “storied” history of the bases where brave soldiers trained,

JS is clear that the issue is honoring the Confederacy. Removing names would “betray the character and decency of every soldier who fought for the South in that bloody and monumental war.” The names express “respect and reconciliation” toward those “called to duty by the States.”

They certainly weren't an expression of reconciliation toward the descendants of those who were enslaved in those states, who continued to be brutalized and terrorized in the name of States Rights long after (as Sessions notes) “the slavery question [sic] had been settled.”

Nothing in Sessions’ thread suggests that “question” was correctly settled. The bases were named during WWI and II in the thick of segregation, lynching and KKK terror. Thus treasonous standard bearers of white supremacy were grafted into the annals of US military history.