We know where this is going and, I suspect, so does Spanberger. She is virtue-signaling to the woke and Black Lives Matter mob, and after a drawn out and expensive series of court battles, the law will be declared void and unconstitutional, allowing Democrats and the Trump Deranged to call the Supreme Court majority racist while giving Justice Katangi Brown-Jackson a shot at writing her most legally ignorant dissent yet.

This is a party that doesn’t like free speech, and views any dissenting opinion as dangerous. How else would you explain this law?

The law’s obvious target is the United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in 1894 for descendants of Confederates. The organization’s mission is to honor the members’ ancestors through education, programs, working with homeless shelters, food banks and other civic groups. That is down the middle of the metaphorical alley for a non-profit organization anywhere.

Democratic Delegate Alex Askew sponsored the bill, which he called an important step toward making state law align with modern values. It doesn’t make state law align with “modern values,” it dictates that Virginian citizens act in lock-step with progressive values. The Daughters of the Confederacy’s building and the property it is on is valued at about $4.7 million, which according to the city’s rate would make the annual property tax over $57,000. The building sustained millions of dollars in damage when Black Lives Matter rioters set it on fire during the George Floyd Freakout.

Black Lives Matters’ non-profit status is secure, of course. The organization is a scam, but it’s a good progressive scam.

“Governor Spanberger’s signing of this bill is a proud moment and an important step forward for Virginia,” Askew said in a statement. Let me correct that a bit: It’s a disgrace.

Also a disgrace is the Times “news story” by Anna Venarchik. She leaves out the rather germane fact that the law is strait-up viewpoint discrimination, violating both the Due Process Claus of the Constitution and the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The rest of the article is teeming with Axis bias. The rioters who burned the The Daughters of the Confederacy’s building are called “demonstrators.” The Trump Administration is described as “aggressively moving to restore some Confederate symbols that were taken down in recent years.” No, the Trump Administration has correctly and ethically opposed the Left’s commitment to historical air-brushing, which, if left to take its natural course, would result in the “cancelling” of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other Founders.

Remembering and honoring Robert E. Lee is not endorsing the Confederacy, but acknowledging an important, complex and influential American whose life and achievements convey many lessons. “Aggressively moving to restore some Confederate symbols that were taken down in recent years” is textbook deceit of the sort that the biased news media has mastered, literally true but deliberately misleading.

Tomorrow I will be offering my services as an ethicist gratis to The Daughters of the Confederacy.