The New York Young Republican Club would like to thank the 200 patriots who came to our rally this Sunday to demonstrate in defense of our 26th president.
It is about time the silent majority wake up and be silent no longer. Sunday's rally was part of that effort.
We intend to organize and host more rallies in order to defend American history and our rights. We will not cower in the face of the mob, we will not kneel, we will not apologize.
We would also like to thank the outpouring of support from across the nation in the form of emails and donations. We promise to keep up the fight!
We look forward to seeing you at our next rally!
Gavin Wax President
New York Young Republican Club
Club President Gavin Wax's Speech on Fox & Friends
Club President Gavin Wax's Speech & the National Anthem
Press Coverage of the Rally
“We’re here today because we’ve bettered ourselves as a society and we continue to better ourselves as a society,” Wax said. “But we’ll never be able to do that anymore if we continue to tear down our history and forget our past — and we’ll be doomed to repeat it.”
Gavin Wax, 26, from planning the protest. “This is about much more than a statue,” Mr. Wax, the president of the New York Young Republicans Club said. “You can’t judge premodern people by postmodern standards of morality, because at that rate you won’t have a history.”
The New York Republican Club called on its members to show support for the statue. About 100 of them showed up, many wearing regalia supporting President Trump. An equal number of counter-protesters turned up to denounce the statue as a symbol of a dark chapter in American history.
He went on to say that “we have to realize this is really about one thing and one thing only, power, because those who control the past control the future as we've seen throughout history from revolutionary Jacobins in France, to Nazi Germany, to the Soviet Union, to Maoist China.”
Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans Club, responsible for the demonstration told the New York Post: 'This statue is of a proud American. Was he perfect? No. No one was perfect… he did a lot for this country.
