14 Ways Congressmen Have Failed Us This Year — So Far

When Louisiana decided to take down its confederate monuments, it made a Mississippi state representative, Karl Oliver, extremely upset. Oliver became so incensed with the idea of a monument representing slavery coming down that he posted a now-deleted message to Facebook, in which he wrote that anyone who wants to “destroy historical monuments. . . should be LYNCHED!” He also compared the removal of these monuments to the book burning events that occurred in Nazi Germany. Needless to say, Oliver apologized for his post and his use of the word “lynched.”