Opinion
The startling reality facing America in wake of Virginia white power rally
By Michael Goodwin
August 15, 2017 | 10:25pm | Updated
President Trump should have left well enough alone. His Monday denunciation of costumed sheet-wearers and Nazi wannabes could have cleared the way for Americans of all stripes to focus their outrage on things that matter more than presidential words.
That would be the violence that is infecting our politics and the frightening acceptance of it as the new normal. But Trump’s defiance yesterday is sure to keep the media pot boiling over his rhetoric instead of an ominous reality.
Namely, that real protesters don’t carry baseball bats, crowbars and mace. Yet Saturday’s bloody clash in Charlottesville showed that many on both sides came ready to rumble.
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