Conservatives Turning on Confederate Statues?

Perhaps my right-wing analysis is weak these days. And the writing in this article is horrendous. But the Daily Howler published an essay arguing to tear down all the Confederate statues because they promote traitors? And you know it’s real because the author has to call the “Black Democrat” from Alabama self-serving since he says the problem with the statues is they represent oppression, which evidently doesn’t matter. But treason does. What am I missing here?