Can Losers be Triumphalists?

Triumphalism is my standard for the removal of statues. It's weird to think of Confederates, the losers, as being triumphalists but in truth they never capitulated. Southern white people sure as hell triumphed in subjugating blacks. Ask some older black people. 

Yankees don't see that the South became a terrorist substate as Reconstruction failed. The Civil War never ended there. Following desegregation the battle moved to Washington as neo-confederates and their allies slowly worked to install an illegal government.  

Now we are the new Confederacy. Confederate values--property and privilege--are everything in today's Washington. Money is everything. The government is for sale. Hate is in the air. Every day the effort to establish permanent minority rule goes forward.