Trump Confronts Unprecedented Public Rebuke By Gary Cohn After Charlottesville

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Cohn:

“citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK.” 

Yet another variation on the theme.

Here's the fact: a non-trivial number of leftist counter-protesters showed up near Lee park looking for a fight. (Undoubtedly many of the right-wing protesters did, too.) Counter-protesters showed up with clubs, pepper spray, bottles filled with urine, and, allegedly, some "bombs" containing urine, feces, paint and mace. And they used them. And not merely in self-defense. These were not peaceful (counter-)protesters. And, since they were looking to prevent the wingnut protesters from exercising their First Amendment rights, it's not clear that they were "standing up for...freedom." Wingnuts have rights, too. Furthermore, to note that the (un-peaceful) (counter-)protesters were responsible for a lot of the violence is not to "equate" them with the white supremacists--except insofar as both groups were responsible for some of the violence.

   Again, my main points throughout all this have been:

     1. Truth matters (and truth matters more when matters are important)

     and

     2.  If what Trump said was really that bad, it shouldn't be necessary to lie about it.