Very Fine People on Both Sides

The unhinged rage and raw hatred directed at President Trump and his supporters doesn’t make sense.  Unless you enter the leftwing fever swamp where Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolph Hitler and his election was the equivalent of the Reichstag Fire.

For a substantial subset of deranged Democrats, it is case closed: Donald Trump is a white supremacists KKK racist. They refuse to debate.  Shouting “Racist” is the nuclear stink bomb ad hominem:  It poisons the air and shuts down dialog.

The most pernicious lie that will not die, is that he called the Charlottesville neo-nazis, “very fine people.”

Politifact sets the record straight by doing something supposedly responsible news and opinion outlets refuse to do:  Publish the entre press conference transcript so people can read and decide for themselves.  Here are the two ‘Very fine people’ excerpts…

Reporter: “The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest –”

Trump: “Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves — and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”

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Trump: “Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue?

“So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

“Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.”

The left screams “Racist!” to shut down all debate, because facts are not on their side.  They are in a frenzied hysteria, they have lost all reason, and the Infotainment Media Complex is egging them on.