Because they are useful idiots for the oilgarchs who are pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Oil barons, War profiteers, and various other types of greedy, selfish billionaire scum love fascism because it keeps the peasants fighting amongst themselves and keeps them distracted from the atrocities they commit in the name of making themselves richer.
Those statues had nothing to do with documenting history, most of them were made in the 1920s- 1960s to be a "f**k you" to people who were protesting against jim crow laws.
