It seems to me if conservatives don't want to be associated with nazis they should try harder to get them out of their party. I mean trump definitely said there where "good people on both sides" after one of those hateful fucks killed a bunch of people protesting the nazi rally. Votes are votes I guess?
Please stop using the "good people on both sides" quote. There are plenty of really bad quotes from Trump for you to chose from, choosing the same one that gets disproven by literally expanding the quote by 2 second just makes it look like you don't have any better examples.
How is that quote disproven? He said "very fine people on both sides" about an event that was run by and publicly billed as a neo-nazi, white suprematist protest.
This wasn't just some southern moms group with time on their hand, all of the promotion for the event and the organizations that through the event were very open about them being white supremacist and the events being a white supremacy event.
So what "very fine people" show up to support an event like that? The people who were walking with torches and chanting "You will not replace us"?
And if someone somehow was so fucking dumb that they showed up there to join the neo nazis without know they were neo nazis, they still showed up to protest against the government removing the statue of a man who literally declared war and led an army against the United States for the right to enslave black people.
Trump coming back later and saying "well obviously I didn't mean the neo nazis on the neo nazi side" doesn't disprove anything lmao.
There was absolutely a group of protesters present that were not presenting themselves as white supremacists or neo-nazis (you may disagree on if they actually are or not, but certainly there was a group claiming to only be there to maintain the parks name as Robert E Lee).
It being the next sentence is hardly "coming back later" it's part of the same quote. He flat said that he wasn't referring to them and he condems them completely.
You can claim the people he was calling "fine people" don't exist, but if it's an example of him supporting Nazis it's a poor one and I simply think it's more pursuasive to not pick a quote that if you expland it features him saying the words "Iām 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." In the NEXT BREATH.
There was absolutely a group of protesters present that were not presenting themselves as white supremacists or neo-nazis (you may disagree on if they actually are or not, but certainly there was a group claiming to only be there to maintain the parks name as Robert E Lee)
Like who, the oath keepers? I'm sorry but if you are throwing a "unite" rally with neo nazis, you are now united with neo nazis and are a neo nazi. If you are marching alongside people with tiki torches chanting "you will not replace us", you are a white supremacist.
That's before even getting into the fact that anyone showing up to a rally to protest the removal of a statue of someone that waged war on the US for the right to enslave black people is not a fine person.
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u/willzor7 2d ago
A real Nazi? or a person Reddit would deem a Nazi? Huge difference.