Trump appears to make another attempt to mop up Charlottesville response

Trump is no anti-Semite or Nazi but, like many on the right, he thinks the liberal media establishment won’t tell the truth about left-wing extremism and is out to smear him by claiming alt-right haters were more than a tiny fraction of the almost 63 million who voted for him.

Following the Charlottesville violence on August 12, the president had initially condemned hatred, bigotry and violence on “many sides”.

“If we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall”, the president said in Phoenix. “You also had some very fine people on both sides”.

Less than three months into his presidency, Trump dropped the MOAB (“Mother of All Bombs”)-the largest non-nuclear bomb the US military possesses.

And, indeed, it was a defining moment. “Blood and soil. Blood and soil”.

Richard Spencer, one of the leaders of the so-called alt-right and white nationalism in the USA, has denied that the movements are racist.

What happened in Virginia was started by far-right groups that have embraced a symbol of the Confederacy as an excuse to vent racism and anti-Semitism. Elsewhere, though, his support is shrinking.

In short, to “make America great again” means to make America a White Supremacist nation.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump rushed to dissolve two highly-touted business advisory councils before all the CEOs on those panels quit. At that point, lawmakers and other leaders were making their own statements against Trump, providing a clear distinction of which side Trump was on.

As we mourn the death of Heather Heyer, murdered by a white supremacist at the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally on Saturday, and hope for the recovery of the dozens of other anti-racist counter-demonstrators injured that day, Donald Trump continues to fan the flames of hatred and bigotry he has nourished throughout his brief presidency. They, of course, could not mention the commander in chief by name.

Trump went after the press in his rally last night. “And when one citizen suffers an injustice, we all suffer together”, Trump said.

But instead of capitulating to the bullies, Trump and his supporters have stood firm – and the left can’t stand it. Similarly, they didn’t see Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or Rand Paul either. “We can not allow this old evil to be resurrected”, Mr. Rubio tweeted. Members of the white nationalist site Stormfront were similarly pleased with the president’s comments. At the end of the week, Trump tried to change the subject from extremist violence to the slightly less painful question of what to do with Civil War monuments. The media is now abuzz with speculation about how long these people can work for a man with such a skewed moral compass before self-loathing impels them to resign. Donald Trump came out on the wrong side of history this past weekend. He feels no sense of loyalty to anyone, except, perhaps, members of his family.

Cohn reportedly told friends he was “mortified” by Trump’s remarks, but apparently not enough to say so publicly or quit.

This would deliver a much-needed shock to the Republican system, but it’s been done before in this country.

For years now, LGBT activists have perfected the art of marking their opponents as KKK and Nazis, so the groundwork has already been laid. The Southern Poverty Law Center documented several of the flags present that day, and noted that one of them, the flag of “Kekistan” – a green banner modeled on the Nazi flag with the 4chan symbol in the top left – has become “a kind of tribal marker of the white supremacist movement”.