Several days ago, I was reading a piece in the New York Times about Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordering the removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk that had been created by community activists to honor the 49 people killed at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando. The state was supposedly responding to a federal directive from President Donald Trump. His administration had determined it was a political demonstration on public land that was also critical of the president.

This action by the Trump administration reminded me of the federal government’s decision in March to remove the “Black Lives Matter” street mural in Washington, D.C. National Public Radio reported that U.S. Congressman Andrew Clyde, a Republican from Georgia, introduced legislation to paint over the street mural and

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