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Charlottesville verdict another missed opportunity for Republicans to disavow hate
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Instead, for the most part, Republicans either looked the other way, kept quiet or went along with Trump’s gaslighting denials that he had, in fact, said what he said.
In many ways, the response to Charlottesville was a dress rehearsal for the right’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection. The same group that adamantly denied that Trump had praised racists as “very fine people” are now pushing revisionist versions of what happened at the Capitol.
In the Charlottesville suit, we heard all the usual rationalizations and defenses: that it was about free speech, the violence was in self-defense and that no one could have known it would have a deadly outcome.
In the end, though, there was no glossing over the ugliness.
During the trial, one of the rally's participants, Michael Hill, the president of the League of the South, was asked about a pledge he had posted online. He was asked to read it aloud in the courtroom: “I pledge to be a white supremacist, racist, antisemite, homophobe, a xenophobe, an Islamophobe and any other sort of phobe that benefits my people, so help me God,” he read.
In many ways, the response to Charlottesville was a dress rehearsal for the right’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection. The same group that adamantly denied that Trump had praised racists as “very fine people” are now pushing revisionist versions of what happened at the Capitol.
In the Charlottesville suit, we heard all the usual rationalizations and defenses: that it was about free speech, the violence was in self-defense and that no one could have known it would have a deadly outcome.
In the end, though, there was no glossing over the ugliness.
During the trial, one of the rally's participants, Michael Hill, the president of the League of the South, was asked about a pledge he had posted online. He was asked to read it aloud in the courtroom: “I pledge to be a white supremacist, racist, antisemite, homophobe, a xenophobe, an Islamophobe and any other sort of phobe that benefits my people, so help me God,” he read.
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