OK, now wait a moment. You have moved from the right having to push out fringe reactionary positions to now labelling idea that splits
nearly 50/50 even among the independents. What you are advocating for is not taking a position that is more moral, what you are saying that Republicans need to do is adopt the Democrat's policy position while rejecting the position supported by the majority of their base, which alienates that base and will sway how many independents (because it sure as hell won't swing Democrats towards them) wo are close to evenly divided on the issue.
Setting that aside, the so-called debate around this issue is entirely without nuance and the Progressives has dishonestly kept moving the goalposts on this matter. Originally when the topic began coming up they wanted the removal of the cheap mass produced confederate monuments that had been placed in front of court houses and the like as symbols of White Supremacy, etc. They explicitly kept repeating that statues with "Historical significance" wouldn't be targeted for removal. They are not calling for the removal of all monuments for Confederates, with a particularly hot flashpoint being the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond Virginia.
This statue is, in fact, the perfect example of everything they claimed they DIDN'T want to take down. It was erected in 1890, decades before the wave of confederate statues that were put up. It was put up, originally, in a place OUTSIDE of the city limits of Richmond in a freaking tobacco field, not at the site of any government building or other major parts of the city (the city has since grown around it and it became the centerpiece of what is now called "Monument Avenue" which features multiple statues depicting famous Virginians, thus, effectively in an
outdoor museum). It is a unique monument, not mass produced, and thus having artistic merit. In point of fact, even documents of the time show that the focus on the monument had nothing to do with white supremacy or even the Lost Cause narrative, but rather, was about
memorializing Lee himself.
Thus, the statue of Lee was is everything they claimed they wanted to allow to continue to be memorialized. But now, no, it must go too.