Where does the Trump presidency go now? After the last week, it looks like a descent into barbarism
Where does the Trump presidency go now? After the last week, it looks like a descent into barbarism
When the president of the United States turns neo-Nazi apologist, it's time for the left to come together
CONOR LYNCH TUESDAY, AUG 22, 2017 04:00 AM CDT
During Donald Trump’s disgraceful press conference last Tuesday, the president of the United States became the world’s leading neo-Nazi apologist. As The New York Times aptly put it in its report, Trump gave “white supremacists an unequivocal boost” by equating “activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.”
“Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations,” wrote Times reporters Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman.
This is hardly an overstatement. By equating the white supremacist and neo-Nazi demonstrators who terrorized the streets of Charlottesville on Saturday — chanting racist slogans like “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us” — with the anti-racist and anti-fascist counter-protesters, the president sent a clear message to racists and white supremacists around the country that he’s got their backs. If the online response is anything to go by, white supremacists heard the president loud and clear.
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/22/where-does-the-trump-presidency-go-now-after-the-last-week-it-looks-like-a-descent-into-barbarism/
