The riot at Charlottesville was not between a bunch of neo-Nazi thugs and a group of peaceful counter-demonstrators. It was between a group of neo-Nazi thugs and a group of Antifa thugs, and the latter came to the protest armed and dangerous and looking for a fight, just as the neo-Nazis did. There being no neo-Nazis present at the Free Speech Rally in Boston this past weekend, Antifa attacked the police instead. Antifa has been attacking police at least since 2009.
For all his fits and starts, President Trump issued one of the clearest and most emphatic denunciations of white supremacy, neo-Nazis, and the KKK that a US President ever has spoken. He did not say it soon enough to please his critics, and we will not disagree with them - he was late and he should apologize. But let's also remember that the previous President still has yet to condemn Islamic Terror by name, and infamously referred to the murders committed by Major Nadal as "workplace violence," not terrorism. We didn't like that, and we let you know we didn't like it - but we never said that made President Obama a terrorist sympathizer. Despite its massive human rights violations, President Obama restored relations with Cuba, and did it with out any significant preconditions or softening of that regime's terror. We did not like that, but we did not call President Obama a communist for doing it.
And yet, President Trump, his forty years of public life to the contrary, is pilloried as a racist - not because he supports the racists, but because it has been determined that he did not verbalize his opposition to them emphatically enough. And the Republican party, which literally was founded to end slavery, is tarred with the brush of racism.
Naziism was defeated in May of 1945, and it took a world-wide coalition that stretched over several continents and covered a spectrum of beliefs ranging from conservative traditionalists, to liberal iconoclasts; from monarchists to democrats, from communists and socialists to capitalists and believers in free enterprise. They were made up of all races, faiths, and beliefs. Naziism was defeated by the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, The USA, the Free French and Poles, and dozens of other nations that united against the common enemy. The idea that Donald Trump, or any prominent American elected official today (or since 1945, for that matter) is a Nazi, is patently ludicrous, and were it not for the venom and anger that President Trump has generated, would never be accepted by any rational-thinking person.
And we all agree that the neo-Nazi, White supremacist, KKK groups all are reprehensible, but that does not mean that the violent loony-left movements that disagree with them are not reprehensible in their own right. Mr. Trump has disowned the former far beyond what any elected Democrat officeholder has done to denounce the latter.