I previously wrote in a post that Donald Trump will do and say anything he feels he needs to in order to get what he wants. He has no morality or ethics. It’s all transactional. The end definitely justifies the means for him.
The New York Times pointed out several days ago that the one group that Trump cannot afford to lose the support of, the one group he cannot offend or criticize, is the alt-right, be they religious conservatives or white supremacists. Because it is the only group that he can count on for unequivocal support … so long as he doesn’t go against them. And so he bends over backwards to stroke them.
Thus we witnessed yesterday his disappointingly weak response to the white supremacists’ marching in Charlottesville, shouting neo-Nazi slogans, and the resulting violence between them and the counter protesters, including driving a truck into a group of protestors, killing one. He said not ONE word against the vileness of the white supremacists. He did not mentioned them at all.
Instead, he equated both sides by condemning the violence on both sides and saying that we must come together. Even some Republicans could not stomach the President’s lack of leadership and morality one this one, calling the marchers’ words and action “evil” and “domestic terrorism.”
In my previous post, I said that the President’s words and actions bring to mind Joseph Welch’s question to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy hearings in the early 50s, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”
It is a sad day for our country. We have had so many sad days since the inauguration. Actually since his nomination. I only pray and hope that masses of whites, people of all colors, will join together in public protest and say, “No, this hatred is not my America. My America believes in the equality of all men.” See www.americansolidarity.org.
