The rally didn’t happen, but the night before the march did happen, and they did say things, and what they said was pretty horrible.
I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures of young men carrying torches doing the Nazi salute, chanting “Death to Jews” among other things.
These are not “made-up” pictures, this really happened. It’s a small group, but to the degree we pretend they don’t exist and everything was find about Charlottesville, we get smeared by association with that group.
If we have come so far politically that we can’t actually stand up and say “sorry, but nazi-wannabees doing salutes, carrying torches, and shouting “death to jews” is simply unacceptable”, we deserve whatever we end up getting.
You miss the point.
The attack on Saturday was not a spontaneous outburst from the enraged citizens of Charlottesville because of what had been said that day.
The attack was planned.
The easiest thing in the world for the Democrats to do on that day was say,
“We won! No rally!”
But they didn’t.
They came in swinging.
This provides them with the precedent to attack people for what they might say.
Antifa poster: http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/antifacommie-919x1024.jpg
Antifa fascists now calling for MURDER of white children
http://pamelageller.com/2017/06/antifa-murder-children.html/
http://freedomoutpost.com/antifa-the-evil-white-race-must-be-destroyed/