Charlottesville Goddam

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http://billmoyers.com/story/charlottesville-goddam/


Charlottesville Goddam

In a time of crisis the president is supposed to bring us together. Donald Trump did not.
By Michael Winship | August 13, 2017


Enough.

We have a president who is emotionally challenged and empathy-free, who on Saturday read from a prepared statement of concern and condemnation, incapable of speaking genuinely from the heart, apparently because he knows that those who speak racist hate and commit acts of deadly violence are a portion of his “base.”

We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump. Because he said he’s going to take our country back.
— David Duke

Witness Ku Kluxer David Duke declaring in Charlottesville, Virginia, before Saturday’s violence, “We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump. Because he said he’s going to take our country back.”

It’s true that you can’t always choose those who want to march in support of you, although Trump’s refusal to condemn his backing from white supremacists is appalling. Nor can it be denied that on the extreme left there are a few, like so many on the extreme right, who see violence as a means to an end. But Trump not only has failed to speak out against white nationalists, he allows them to work in his White House and mutter seditious nonsense into his all-too-susceptible ears.

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President Trump, you reap what you sow and boilerplate statements of sorrow ring hollow. Presidents are supposed to bring us together. Your predecessors, Republicans and Democrats, have done so with grace.

But this president says he loves all Americans while working to deprive them of their freedoms. And keeps within his circle of advisers those for whom hate is an asset and not a dagger to the heart of democracy.

Donald Trump, White Supremacy and the Big Lie

Fire Sebastian Gorka, the bogus security adviser who earlier this week told Breitbart News Daily that white supremacists are not a problem. Fire Stephen Miller, who seems to think the Statue of Liberty is more a symbol of exclusion than welcome. And fire Steve Bannon and his off-the-wall, destructive theories of white nationalism.

Their dismissals would be a start. But on Saturday, we saw into your soul, Donald Trump. And there was nothing there.

http://billmoyers.com/story/charlottesville-goddam/

[bronxiteforever]

1. Tremendous. K & R

[annabanana]

2. Kicking.. Bannon & Miller & Gorka OUT of the People's House

would be the only, first, step in the right direction...

[shraby]

3. And trump out of the people's house too. He's a stain on the country.