If Trump said that there were one-legged jugglers at the protest, it would not change the fact that he explicitly condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists and explicitly excluded them as “fine people”.
If Trump had said unicorns and faeries were there it would still not change that fact.
The concept is really not as hard as you want to make it.
He had to create a group of people that were not there to defend the culture war around the statue.
I think that he did this because the issue of the statue being removed became a rallying cry for Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and instead of taking a step back and wondering why one is suddenly on the same side of a very very stupid cause as Nazis… he had to make up that there were people who were not Nazis to throw fuel on the culture war fire.
It allows for the culture divide to continue without having to ask oneself… why do I want the same thing that the Nazis want on this issue of whether or not a municipality can take down a statue that I will likely never see in person and does not affect my life one bit.
I especially love when they come up with bigoted things someone said, then repeat those things over and over again, knowing that person never said them. It’s like a free pass to say ■■■■■■ up ■■■■ .
For the record, virtually every source that covered the Unite the Right debacle concluded that it was conceived of, led by and attended by white supremacists, and that therefore Trump’s characterization was wrong.
that would not be what he did. What he did was say there were fine people on both sides of the argument about the statue, and clarified he was not talking about white supremacists or neo nazi’s or antifah
The only people at the White Nationalist Neo Nazi rally were White Nationalist Neo Nazis.
I think that you are kind of proving my point that Trump had to invent a group of people who were not there in order to comment on the culture side of it.
The only way you could know that for sure is if you were there and involved. So what side were you on the neo nazis or the cowards wearing black and black masks?