A CNN panel had a field day on Tuesday attacking Gen. John Kelly for his comments about the Civil War yesterday.

During an interview on Fox News, Gen. Kelly asserted that the Civil War was caused by the “lack of ability to compromise” and called Gen. Robert E. Lee an “honorable man.”

The panel ripped into his comments the following morning, calling them “very troubling” and “bigotry being ignored and rationalized.”

“This was not a close call,” contributor David Gregory said. “America mattered then and it matters now. History is not history when it comes to the Civil War. These monuments were put up during Reconstruction to stick it to free black people and to let them know there would be a new Jim Crow.”

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