> Instead of denouncing explicitly the white nationalists responsible for the bloodshed, the president took craven refuge in moral equivalence and evasion.
> Confronted with homegrown bigotry and its violent consequences, he dons the kid gloves of a politician anxious not to upset the militant wing of his base.
> Compare and contrast the splendid outrage of Virginia’s governor, Terry McAuliffe, who did not hesitate to distinguish between right and wrong. “You are not patriots,” he said. “You came here today to hurt people and that is not patriotic … My message is clear: we are stronger than you. You will not succeed. There is no place for you here and there is no place for you in America.”
http://archive.is/UknqP
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/charlottesville-white-supremacists-donald-trump
>>137293166
Why is the (((media))) trying to pretend this is not just push back against their bullshit?
hmmmmmm
>>137294130
> There were 111 injuries that day. The riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, provoked once again by neo-Nazi agitators, have already claimed one life and endangered many others.
> Ostensibly objecting to the planned removal of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee, a rabble of white supremacists has brought ugliness, violence and shame to a city of great beauty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzZb6kfctEU