Neo-Nazis explain why they like Donald Trump

PINOY BUILT August 14, 2017

Why Trump can’t disavow the Charlottesville neo-Nazi carnage

Was Trump responsible for the death of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old paralegal killed on Saturday by a car ploughing into a crowd of antiracist protesters? Not directly, of course. But we cannot acquit him entirely, either. Since announcing his candidacy, he has conjured into being a permissive phenomenon: a series of signals, nods and winks that has led, finally, to the horrors of this weekend.

In his inaugural address, the president spoke of “American carnage”. Well, this is what that carnage looks like. Those who are excited by the rightwing populism that has been unleashed around the world should reflect more deeply upon the animal spirits that they so blithely salute, and the havoc those spirits may yet sow. Let them confront what they have spawned. Let them own the shame of Charlottesville. - TheGuardian.com

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