Today Marked the Beginning of the End of Trump - Michael Tomasky
After his performance today, no one can pooh-pooh away the possibility of the president empowering people who want a race war.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
08.15.17 7:50 PM ET
That was the beginning of the end.
The end may take six months, or 18, or two years, or three and change. God forbid it could take longer. But that press conference opened a new door.
The door leads to the grim place where no person in a position of responsibility in this country can now deny Donald Trump’s unfitness for the presidency.
This is the president of the United States we’re talking about. A president is supposed to make an effort to comfort. Say unifying things. Try to reach for words that can help mend the fragile civic fabric. Whatever their failings, Barack Obama and George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and every one of them, at least in the television age, tried to speak healing words at moments like this.
Trump gathered up the civic fabric, doused it with gasoline, and set it on fire.
Hard to know where to start. Probably with his defense of the Friday night protesters. They were “protesting very quietly.”
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There is no "Alt-Left" since that term doesn't mean anything. But the Neo-Nazis in this country need to have a reason to feel good about themselves and about their idiotic leader.
This is a false equivalence. Calling the resisters "Alt-Left" means they're trying to justify the "Alt-Right" movement. They call themselves "Alt-Right" in order to avoid being called Neo-Nazis, and that's what they are - Neo-Nazis or neo-fascists.
Those of us who are resisting this movement are not "Alt-Left", we are normal sane, free-thinking people. Please stop using the term "Alt-Left" because when you do you're playing into their hands. You're letting them define your terms. We are liberals, we are Democrats, we stand against fascism/nazism in any form.
Thanks for listening.
