Today’s progressives target their own former icons, and the Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinners are disappearing before the assault. New Hampshire honors a different kind of assault: instead of slaveholders Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, its renamed Clinton-Kennedy Dinner venerates sexual predators. University of Virginia students shrouded a Thomas Jefferson statue in black, while contemporary progressive icon Al Sharpton has called for the defunding of Washington DC’s Jefferson Memorial. When Jefferson is finally erased, will Americans, like Byzantines, furtively turn their nickels into bracelets to commemorate the author of the Declaration of Independence?