Posted on 08/20/2017 4:57:35 PM PDT by HokieMom
Parson Hicks, 35, a strong supporter of President Trump, dismissed the moral outrage at his remarks about violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the past week. Credit M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times
For Parson Hicks, a health care finance executive who supports President Trump, this past week has felt a little like déjà vu. Mr. Trump says something. His opponents howl and then predict, with certainty, a point of no return.
The last time this happened, she said, was in October with the notorious “Access Hollywood” recording of Mr. Trump talking lewdly about women. His opponents were sure he was finished. His supporters knew better.
“Let’s be honest, the people who are currently outraged are the same people who have always been outraged,” said Ms. Hicks, 35, a lifelong Republican who lives in Boston. “The media makes it seem like something has changed, when in reality nothing has.”
It was a week of incessant tumult, when Mr. Trump tumbled into open warfare with some in his own party over his statements on the violence in Charlottesville, Va.; business executives abandoned his advisory councils; top military leaders pointedly made statements denouncing racism in a way he did not; and his embattled chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, stepped down. But around the country, Mr. Trump’s supporters — and, according to many polls, Republicans more broadly — agreed with his interpretation of a swirl of racially charged events and stood with him amid still more clatter and churn.
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Dear USA,
Are these some of the "white supremacist Nazis" you are rioting over? #PERSIST! #BostonFreeSpeechRally
I don’t believe Trump thinks there are any “fine” Nazis or KKK members. I do believe Trump thinks, as do I, there are “fine” people who wish the Confederate statues and monuments to stay in place. I don’t believe there are any “fine” Antifa members.
WINNING!!!
That's one smart woman...
Yes, that’s what the President said: fine people on both sides of the argument; not fine people on both sides of the violent participants. The media and other leftists are distorting on purpose.
Ben Stein supports the preservation of Civil War Historical sites and I do not think that Ben is a Nazi or White Nationalist.
“...people who wish the Confederate statues and monuments to stay...”
I also would hope there are still folks who believe in reason and procedure, as well, regardless of party affiliation.
It is not unreasonable to think locals might debate and decide they no longer want this or that statue on public property over time.
But nobody is right who thinks they are entitled to physically tear down whatever property which they’ve suddenly decided offends them personally.
Or I’d be buying a ticket to Seattle right now, to tear down that statue of Lenin. Or any statues of Bill Clinton, Margaret Sanger, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Byrd, the slave-loving Democrat party, etc.
As master of knowledge and reason, Dinesh D’Souza, has laid out... it is the Left’s idols FDR and Sanger who inspired Nazis, not the other way around.
So not only are American Leftists analogously evil, they are actually partly responsible for the Leftward evilution of the worst aspects of Nazism itself.
And Sanger’s racist goals live on in Planned Parenthood. Nobody on the planet compares to them regarding intentionally racially imbalanced killing. Of the most innocent humans on earth.
Just another dumb little racist black girl.
Nikki Haley fired the first shot
Everyone who doesn’t support Trump is a person who is sound asleep, and doesn’t realize that virtually everyone else in government wants to destroy the U.S.
AntiFA=anti First Amendment
AntiFA=anti First Amendment
Mission accomplished.
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