The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of
- 7 years ago
The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of
Let’s discard the fiction that President Trump wasn’t placating white supremacists by responding so weakly to the neo-Nazi violence
that killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterdemonstrator in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.
All day on Sunday, Mr. Trump remained silent, as H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser,
and Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose jobs are to understand and combat hate-based threats, covered for him on the television news shows.
Instead, he spoke of an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence that’s on many sides.”
Mr. Trump is alone in modern presidential history in his willingness to summon demons of bigotry and intolerance in service to himself.
He began his political career on a lie about President Barack Obama’s citizenship
and has failed to firmly condemn the words and deeds of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan leaders and other bigots who rallied behind him.
“We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump,” said Mr. Duke, whose support Mr. Trump has only reluctantly disavowed in the past.
“He didn’t attack us,” crowed The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website, about Mr. Trump’s statement after the two days of racist demonstrations.
One aide not heard from was Steve Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, whose nationalist theories
and Breitbart dog whistles helped summon the rage on display in Charlottesville
The police said a 20-year-old man, who participated in the long-planned protest against the removal of a statue of Robert
E. Lee, plowed his car into peaceful counterdemonstrators on Saturday, killing Ms. Heyer and injuring 19 others.
Let’s discard the fiction that President Trump wasn’t placating white supremacists by responding so weakly to the neo-Nazi violence
that killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterdemonstrator in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.
All day on Sunday, Mr. Trump remained silent, as H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser,
and Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose jobs are to understand and combat hate-based threats, covered for him on the television news shows.
Instead, he spoke of an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence that’s on many sides.”
Mr. Trump is alone in modern presidential history in his willingness to summon demons of bigotry and intolerance in service to himself.
He began his political career on a lie about President Barack Obama’s citizenship
and has failed to firmly condemn the words and deeds of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan leaders and other bigots who rallied behind him.
“We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump,” said Mr. Duke, whose support Mr. Trump has only reluctantly disavowed in the past.
“He didn’t attack us,” crowed The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website, about Mr. Trump’s statement after the two days of racist demonstrations.
One aide not heard from was Steve Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, whose nationalist theories
and Breitbart dog whistles helped summon the rage on display in Charlottesville
The police said a 20-year-old man, who participated in the long-planned protest against the removal of a statue of Robert
E. Lee, plowed his car into peaceful counterdemonstrators on Saturday, killing Ms. Heyer and injuring 19 others.