Were it not just the latest example of Donald Trump’s unfitness for office, Tuesday’s press conference, in which he unburdened himself of his real view of the neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville, would have been even more shocking.
He told the world that there is nothing to choose between white supremacists and those who oppose them. Worse, he went out of his way — this is the President of the USA, do not forget — to praise the “very fine people” marching in Charlottesville — people marching proudly alongside neo-Nazis, KKK members and other assorted racists, chanting “Jews will not replace us.”
President Trump may claim not to be racist. His cheerleaders — some, shamefully, from our own community — may say the same. Objective fact says otherwise.
It is one thing to witness racist violence in the US. Tragically, this has existed throughout its history. It is quite another, however, when the President of the US is unable to bring himself to single out those racists for condemnation and equates the bigots with those who protest against their bigotry.
