After Charlottesville, Trump took a full 48 hours to condemn actual neo-Nazis goose-stepping ten minutes from Thomas Jefferson’s birthplace. But even against this bleak and darkening backdrop, the Democratic Party just can’t seem to get its act together.
Last weekend, serious violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a group of white supremacist demonstrators was confronted by a group of folks who were there to condemn the message the demonstrators had come to advance.
In crafting the First Amendment, our Founding Fathers resolved to protect all speech, even expressions of hatred and bigotry. It is one of the steep prices we pay for democracy. What you are not free to do is visit acts of violence on others.
There is a larger purpose then pointing fingers, and it is a goal that neither party, nor our political leaders, nor the media has addressed – and that is to make a conscious effort to unify a broad mass of the American people around our common ideals and common goals.
The Groundhog Day nature of U.S. response to North Korea for the last decade, during Republican and Democratic administrations alike – provocation, followed by multilateral sanctions that usually are not fully implemented, leading to another provocation, to another round of sanctions – begs the question: why will this time be any different?
When images hit the web last Saturday night of white supremacist college students in Virginia carrying tiki torches in one hand and giving the Nazi salute with the other, Twitter and social media sleuths immediately went to work in attempting to identify members of the white shirt khaki mob.
President Trump has been having a rough few weeks and could use a win. So why isn’t he crowing about what seems to be an important victory in getting Germany to pay its fair share for defense of the Western world?