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Look at the picture above. It’s from the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, in August of 2017, after which a Nazi terrorist by the name of James Fields ran over and murdered anti-racist activist Heather Heyer.
And please note, I said Nazi terrorist. Not neo-Nazi, as is often bandied about by some, but Nazi. Because none of the racist losers at that rally have had an original thought — the kind that might make them neo — in their entire lives. Everything they stand for, everything they believe is borrowed, cribbed, indeed straight plagiarized from the Hitlerism of the 1930s.
Paleolithic Nazi, maybe. Jurassic Nazi, sure. But Neo? Nah.
Although there is no swastika in this photo, others were brandishing them that day and the night before at the tiki torch riot on the UVA campus. And it is worth noting, especially as the president continues to insist that there were “good people” amid that bunch, that not one of these supposedly fine souls ever responded in horror to the presence of such symbolism.
Not one among them asked the Nazis to leave, or thought to tell them, “Oh my goodness no, you must have misunderstood our purpose today, we don’t believe in that!” Not one of the “good people” on that side of…
