Posted on 08/13/2018 2:16:29 PM PDT by Ennis85
On the one-year anniversary of the violence in Charlottesville and the killing of Heather Heyer, an anti-Nazi protester allegedly mowed down by a white nationalist, President Trump reminded us he is incapable of treating white nationalism as a singular evil — or of offending his white-grievance-obsessed base.
Trump unleashed a furious backlash a year ago when he engaged in jaw-dropping moral equivalence, saying there were “very fine people, on both sides” (meaning both Nazi sympathizers and anti-Nazi protesters) and later claiming there was “blame on both sides.” Saturday, he gave the same wink to white grievance mongers, insisting on Twitter, “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans.”
Let’s count the things wrong with this.
The “riots” — a blob without definition — did not “result” in “death and division” — two more blobs with no definition. Heyer’s death. A white nationalist allegedly murdered an anti-Nazi protester. Period. Trump cannot say those words because to do so would reaffirm his failure a year ago and, worse, annoy the segment of his white base that thinks they are the victims of racism. As The Post reported, “Trump’s tweet Saturday, his first public mention of the anniversary, did not label the event as a white supremacist rally or specify that it was a white rallygoer who rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one.” (One is reminded of his 2017 International Holocaust Remembrance Day message which omitted the word “Jew.”)
“We must come together as a nation” is rich coming from the president who has done more to fan anti-immigrant, racist hatred than any modern president. Indeed, racial divisiveness (e.g., picking fights with African
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Jennifer is a deluded idiot.
I’m glad that I don’t have a parasite in my brain.
5.56mm
She probably believes this garbage. What a sad world she must live in.
No, as explained as nauseum, he meant both sides of the argument regarding the removal of statues. Yet they continue to add that lie to the pile.
Rubin is what one calls “pork chop ugly”.
Has the Post finally stopped lying to us that Rubin is their conservative ‘voice’?
It’s time to stop reposting Jennifer Rubin. We know what she is by now and there’s nothing new to be gained by promoting and extending the reach of her work product.
Why does it need commemorating?
exactly.
Jebbifer, there is nothing to commemorate, it was a staged event to advance a narrative.
NOBODY IS BUYING IT.
I missed all the hubbub over the anniversary of the GOP baseball game shooting by a liberal fundamentalist. Oh right - there was none.
Jennifer Rubin needs to find Jesus.
Gosh darn it. The left are not innocent and until they are, I will never take them seriously.
They claim to be peaceful yet they riot, burn, destroy and steal, and are physically violent.
Come back when you have done none of this and, most importantly, your leadership have condemned it. If you don’t condemn it, by default you support it.
Otherwise, go away.
Why is there no “commemoration” of the racist murders of 5 Dallas cops by BLM black nationalist? Hell of a lot more significant than the unfortunate heart attack death (not “murder”) of a morbidly obese anarchist.
The Queen of the Neocons.
What is there to commemorate?
Thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Yep. You know it's true because of all those White Lives Matter rallies we'all attend.
jaw-dropping moral equivalence, saying there were “very fine people, on both sides”
Kind of like the Left is fond of saying about islime and Christianity? Or homos and heteros? Or invaders and ICE?
Tell me, Jennifer. Does being that stupid hurt?
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