I couldn’t tell you what disgusts me more right now. While I am revolted that a supposed President of this country could emphatically defend Nazis, I am just as disgusted with the people who dutifully picked up his parrot points, and are now helping him to insist that a woman run down in the street by a car shares in the responsibility for her murder. I will assume those apologists are among the “fine people” Trump insists show up at rallies fig-leafed as “protecting history”, but known to all to be chances for white bigots to get together and try their hand at giving Nazi ideology a respectable position in society. It certainly isn’t hard to see why these idiots would feel emboldened, is it? An undemocratic electoral system forced a white bigot into the Presidency. As surely as he’s ignored the fact that a sound majority of Americans did not want him in that office, so have they. And they all maintain their ignorance the same way, via only reading or listening to media outlets that confirm their sense of majority. And superiority.
Anyone trying to excuse the murder of Heather Heyer away is an enemy of freedom. Of humanity. Anyone excusing this has earned being called a Nazi sympathizer, because they are Nazi sympathizers. There is no logical way anyone could blame “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville. Only someone who believes in white supremacy can try to equivocate. The anti-Nazis protesting in Charlottesville weren’t carrying around guns, nor were they screaming about their hatred of other nationalities and/or ethnicities. The Trump Nazi machine (with the very willing assistance of FOX “News”) has geared up to try to paint Antifa as some kind of “alt left” equivalent to Nazism. They are nothing of the sort. Antifa doesn’t drive cars into innocent people. Antifa doesn’t stockpile weapons, and then parade them around in public to intimidate peaceful citizens. Antifa doesn’t coordinate hate rallies via the use of online dens of filth. Antifa is you. Antifa is me. We reject Fascism. We reject racism. We don’t murder unarmed and innocent people. That’s their bag. If Trump wants to try to excuse them, Trump tells you everything you need to know about him. As does any Trump supporter trying to equivocate.
With Trump’s statements yesterday, any middle ground is now removed. You cannot be pro Trump and anti Nazi anymore. You never could, of course, but there was once almost a plausible deniability available to you. That is gone, and it will never come back. So if you consider yourself a Trump supporter, you can also consider yourself a white supremacist and a Nazi sympathizer, because you cannot divorce your support from his actions. The contradictions are not mine to solve for you, either. They are for you to take care of.
It seems to me it’s time for you to decide which side you’re on.