Tech Billionaire Mark Pincus's Redpill Moment: Discovering that Trump Did Not Call Nazis "Very Fine People"

His realization was years later, but Charlottesville was a turning point for me, too, as it was happening. 

Trump made an excellent statement after the riot, and I said so here. I still had comments at the time*, and many long-time commenters freaked out, making really bad arguments against Trump's statement. That was also about the time I started losing virtually all readers--which was too bad, but it's not like I'm doing this for money or anything...

   Then, of course, came Trump's public statement and the left's initiation of the "very fine people" hoax...which many lefties believe to this day, which lies both Biden and Harris repeated in debates, and which constituted another inflection point in my mind.

   It was immediately obvious that they were lying...but the left clings to the lie. The formerly-respectable Snopes just finally admitted it was a lie last year--I'm not sure any other "fact-"checking sites have done so.

   More important to me, though, was the fact that the First Amendment rights of the Unite the Right protestors were violated. They had a right to assemble, and this was violated by violent leftist quasi-Antifa rioters. They were attacked for their political views, including with a "homemade flamethrower" (a can of paint, lit on fire). (Burning paint guy was later the subject of a fawning personal-interest story in the MSM, but I don't remember where.) Nobody in the media mentioned that the UtR protestors were in the right and the leftist "counterprotestors" were unequivocally in the wrong.

   In fact, that's basically all Trump should have said: the assembly was legal and, in fact, Constitutionally protected; the violent attempt to shut it down was not. (Here I'm not speaking of the tiki-torch march across UVA Grounds the night before.)

   Anyway.

*Speaking of comments, I've said this before: I stopped posting or even looking at them when I decided to shut this blog down...probably not that long after the Charlottesville riot... But then I just never got around to it...

I started  Substack quite some time ago...but never got around to posting to it...