Sunday News: “The Hoods Are Off”; “White supremacists cheer Trump’s response”; RIP Heather Heyer, Murdered by Neo-Nazi Thug

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 13.

• White supremacists cheer Trump’s response to Charlottesville violence (“He said he loves us all.”)
• “Why we voted for Donald Trump”: David Duke explains the white supremacist Charlottesville protests
• Failing the North Korea test would set China back for decades
• Trump condemns hatred and violence ‘on many sides’; Va. Republicans, Democrats blame white nationalists (Trump is an imbecile, of course, but also doesn’t want to offend his white supremacist supporters. And who knows if he’s a white supremacist himself, but he sure acts like one at times, for instance the whole “birther” thing.)
• What a presidential president would have said about Charlottesville (“Once again, we offer a wishful correction to Mr. Trump’s sad record.” Trump is an f’ing disgrace to humanity, and of course to America.)
• These are your people, President Trump (“They were speaking your language, vomiting your sentiments, acting out what animates you from within.”)
• Trump babbles in the face of tragedy (“Charlottesville proved Trump incapable of one of the president’s primary jobs.”)
• There are only two sides to Charlottesville. Trump is on the wrong one.
• Republicans may not have the votes for more spending cuts (“The era when the GOP demanded that debt ceiling increases be matched by corresponding spending cuts may be over, even with total Republican control in Washington.”)
• Amid the violence in Virginia, President Trump failed in a test of leadership (Trump is simply not a leader, or at least not a good one in any way.)
• Neo-Nazis are rallying in Virginia today. Here’s how to think about the alt-right. (“They reject the idea that America is founded on abstract principles and instead believe it’s a product of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and that it could be no other way.”)
• Terror in Charlottesville: Woman killed as car rams into anti-racist protesters at white nationalist rally
• Trump suspects Bannon of leaking, putting job in jeopardy (Note that Bannon’s job isn’t in jeopardy for any substantive reason, like the fact that he’s an extremist loon…)
• Trump’s Stunningly Milquetoast Response To The Charlottesville Protests (“The president likes to call protesters ‘criminals’ and ‘thugs.’ Not this time.”)
• Trump fails to condemn white supremacists in statement on Charlottesville violence
• Horror and hate in Charlottesville
• My meeting with Donald Trump: A damaged, pathetic personality — whose obvious impairment has only gotten worse (“I didn’t get his endorsement when I ran for governor — but the severely troubled man I met has only gotten worse”)
• Trump’s Democratic tax dilemma
• ‘The alt-right is a terrorist movement’: Ex-Bush ethics czar blasts Trump administration’s support of racists
• ‘That’s just not reality’: Sociologist says liberals and conservatives are far from ‘equally violent’
• Things President Trump Has Condemned Other Than White Nationalists
• The Ugly, Violent Clichés of White-Supremacist Terrorism (“But, of course, as regards this weekend—and other weekends, eerily alike—there is really only one side. A photo by Samuel Corum for Anadolu Agency presents it as it is. An all-white crowd of older men and women, but mostly college-aged kids, carrying, idiotically, torches used to keep mosquitoes out of nice families’ back yards. Orange light defines the outlines of their heads. A kid in a too-big white polo, black T-shirt underneath, is in the middle of a shout, like some upset Nazi toddler. A forelock hangs down; the wind might carry it into his eye. Which awful word sits on that half-shadowed tongue? He looks ridiculous, but even in the silence of the picture, his motives are clear. Trump knows, too—he’s too American not to recognize them—and yet he doesn’t say.”)
• The Hoods Are Off (“The ‘Unite the Right’ gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.”)
• When Does a Fringe Movement Stop Being Fringe? (“Even the most feared white supremacists in the lore of Jim Crow were just regular white men.”)
• Why Charlottesville? (“The answer comes down, in large part, to one more thing Charlottesville is: historic. It is a city that embraces its history, not as a frank fact of the past but as a defining feature of its present. Plaques and statues are everywhere on the becolumned UVA campus. Thomas Jefferson—as a person and as an idea—infuses the place. But Charlottesville is not merely a blue city in a red state; it is also a southern town in a southern state. The monuments that make the city’s history manifest are often ones that celebrate figures of the Confederacy.”)
• Alt-Right Members in Charlottesville Vow Not to Back Down (“This is a phenomenal victory.”)
• How Donald Trump emboldened Charlottesville white supremacists (“Trump’s response to Charlottesville is another wink and nod to white supremacists”)
• White Supremacy Is Demonic (“We must call white supremacy by its right name and destroy it.”)
• Hillary Clinton Condemns White Supremacist Groups For Inciting Violence, Trumps Says It’s Coming From ‘Many Sides’ (She won the majority of votes and is infinitely better suited to being president than the disgrace in the White House right now…)
• Hillary Clinton On Violence In Virginia: If This Isn’t America, ‘Let’s Prove It’ (“The former secretary of state said that ‘incitement of hatred’ had brought white supremacists to the streets.” Incitement by, first and foremost, Trump.)
• Corey’s Non-Denunciation Denunciation (“So I suppose it should come as no surprise that, in the wake of Nazi flags being paraded in the streets of a Virginia city, Stewart has again declined the opportunity to denounce this kind of vile hatred.”)
• Paralegal killed during protest of Charlottesville white supremacist rally: ‘She died doing what was right’ (“Counter-protesters and medics rushed to help the lone victim who died during a peaceful Charlottesville protest disrupted by a madman with a sports car on Saturday. Friends and relatives identified the slain 32-year-old woman as Heather Heyer, a paralegal with the Miller Law Group.”)
• Charlottesville is Representing Our Worst (“What is happening in Charlottesville is a group of small-minded, small-endowed idiots think that they can somehow improve themselves by toting guns and torches through the streets. They think they can intimidate with hate and racism. They’re wrong.”)
• Bloodshed in Charlottesville (“A photojournalist captures scenes from a Virginia city beset with violence as white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters.”)
• Patients have had their surgeries cancelled because of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville (“Elective surgeries were cancelled because of the rally to protest the removal of Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee.”)
• Stewart: Charlottesville will prompt liberal ‘crackdown’ on free speech (Corey Stewart is a nutjob; what the hell is he even talking about???)
• Virginia governor tells Nazis ‘go home’ and calls on Trump to fight hate speech – video
• Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam addresses jobs, health care and Charlottesville violence
• Ohio man charged with driving into Virginia marchers opposing white nationalists, killing 1
• Political leaders from around U.S. condemn white nationalist rally in Charlottesville
• Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville (“State police and national guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters.”)
• Feds open civil rights investigation; state police arrest three men in Charlottesville
• Editorial: Malevolence and Mayhem in Charlottesville (“The question now is what the weekend in Charlottesville represents. Will it be remembered as the last gasp of a putrid ideology, or the first wave of its revival? Will the outbreak of unreason be confined to one weekend in a small college town — or will it infect other cities?”)
• Two state police pilots killed in Charlottesville helicopter crash (Ugh…)
• How Virginia candidates responded to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville
• Police in Charlottesville criticized for slow response to violent demonstrations (“Beatings, fights broke out in park before White Nationalist rally”)
• Thunderstorm’s torrent triggers damaging mudslide at Mount Vernon estate (“The mansion house and other historic structures are intact, but damage to the estate is estimated at more than $1 million.”)
• Editorial: We don’t have words strong enough (“There are no words strong enough to properly condemn the vile ideology of the white supremacists who converged on Charlottesville this weekend — a condemnation warranted even if the racists had peaceably gone about their repugnant business and then left without incident. Instead, we now have death. Let us speak plainly about what happened, and what ought to happen, especially since our president was unable to.”)
• Vigil planned in Roanoke on Sunday after Charlottesville violence
• CASEY: Tickets are (kind of) available for the inaugural train ride from Roanoke
• Nationals’ Bryce Harper leaves 3-1 win with knee injury, to undergo MRI Sunday (Hope he’s ok!)
• Brighter skies close out the weekend; hotter by midweek