by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, August 17.
- The Other Inconvenient Truth (“The Republican Party should acknowledge how it has fueled white supremacy.” Big time, for decades now – since the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of the early 1960s.)
- How to Handle Donald Trump (“This can’t go on. We don’t have time to wait for impeachment. Patriotic Republicans and administration officials have to get together and find a way to make sure that Donald Trump will never again say anything in public that is not written on a piece of paper. It’s their duty to the country.”)
- Trump Opens Breach With Party, Military and Industry
- The Sheer Number Of Democrats Running For Congress Is A Good Sign For The Party
- Why Trump’s Charlottesville crisis is shocking but not surprising (“Trump has been saying racist things for a long time — and it’s never caused him a real loss.”)
- Amidst All of This Ugliness, Don’t Forget About Healthcare (“Obamacare as we know it is still under attack.”)
- Say His Name When You Denounce His Bigotry (“It’s the only way.”)
- There will be no pivot (“Journalists have been predicting Trump will change for more than a year. It isn’t going to happen.” Any “journalist” who predicted that should be fired immediately for gross incompetence and stupidity. Same thing with anyone who obsessed over “Hillary’s emails”)
- How Syria continued to gas its people as the world looked on (We should have nailed them after their first chemical weapons attack. Still, to this day, not sure why President Obama backed down from his “red line” on that.)
- Two White House corporate advisory groups disband amid Charlottesville fallout
- Lack of discipline from Trump leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed (“The uproar over Trump’s equating of white nationalists and counterprotesters underscored the challenges that even a four-star general such as John Kelly faces in instilling order around the president, whose first instinct when cornered is to lash out.”)
- Trump has a long history of fostering racial divisions
- The GOP Can’t Hide From Charlottesville (“Even as the party rebukes Donald Trump’s remarks, it continues to enable his racist policies.”)
- Charlottesville: One battle in a war for America’s very soul (“What makes America great is that we are willing to fix what’s wrong”)
- California’s big pushback: Golden State sets the standard for resistance to Trump agenda (“Attorney General Xavier Becerra and progressive legislators are fighting back against the Trump agenda”)
- The Monuments Must Go (“An open letter from the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.”)
- Trump’s stance on Virginia violence shocks America’s allies
- A former skinhead reflects on Charlottesville: “We have a massive and dangerous domestic terrorist threat”
- Trump’s remarks defending neo-Nazis were full of right-wing media talking points (Fox really needs to be destroyed.)
- Trump’s isolation grows (“President Trump’s political isolation mounted on Wednesday, with business CEOs abandoning his economic advisory panels and GOP lawmakers ducking for cover. Military leaders denounced racism a day after their commander in chief backtracked to say both sides were to blame for violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.”)
- CEOs revolt against Trump over Charlottesville
- GOP fears damage to brand from Charlottesville (Well-deserved damage.)
- Democrats Mount an Effort to Censure Donald Trump (“The House resolution faults the president for failing to adequately condemn white supremacists ‘and assure the American people of his resolve to opposing domestic terrorism.'”)
- Steve Bannon, Unrepentant (“Trump’s embattled strategist phones me, unbidden, to opine on China, Korea, and his enemies in the administration.”)
- Bannon Mocks Colleagues and ‘Alt-Right’ in Interview (“In an interview he said he believed was private, Stephen K. Bannon described the alt-right as a ‘collection of clowns’ and lashed out at rivals in the Trump administration.”)
- Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric
- ‘I’m terrified’: Neo-Nazi blubbers like a baby in video reporting he’s wanted for arrest in Charlottesville
- Steve Bannon thought he wasn’t giving an interview (“This is DEFCON 1-level bad.”)
- The Road to Radicalism in Charlottesville (“Violent extremism—whether in jihadist or white supremacist form—is often driven by the same processes.”)
- The huge problem with comparing Lee and Davis to Washington and Jefferson (“We celebrate the good things the founders did. Confederates didn’t do anything good.”)
- Regime Change in Charlottesville (“If you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different…In the early 1920s, America was in the grip of a huge revival of the Ku Klux Klan. Its recruits were responding partly to the growing movement for black civil rights”)
- How Militias Became the Private Police for White Supremacists (“In the Trump era, armed antigovernment groups have found common cause with Nazis, KKK and other white nationalists.” Very dangerous.)
- Alabama senator says he can’t criticize Trump’s press conference because he was too busy to watch it (“Luther Strange couldn’t possibly comment.” Strange is right!)
- Republican Fox & Friends pundit, overcome with emotion, says he can’t defend Trump anymore (“He has failed us.” Ya think?)
- Warner, Kaine call for task force on hate crime
- Virginia Sen. Mark Warner: Trump’s latest Charlottesville comments ‘shocking’
- Kaine: ‘Not going back’ to Confederacy
- Sen. Kaine cancels Norfolk speech to attend funeral of trooper killed in Charlottesville helicopter crash
- Ed Gillespie: Thoughts on Virginia’s Historical Monuments (“I believe that decisions about historical statues are best made at the local level, but they should stay and be placed in historical context.” WRONG.)
- 11th District Republican Committee Officially Repudiates the Alt-Right
- Editorial: A tectonic shift in the debate over Confederate monuments (“Monuments are meant to glorify, and that is what Richmond’s Civil War monuments surely do. The city now has to decide exactly what they glorify — and if it still merits the honor.”)
- Va. League of Conservation Voters PAC to announce $1.1 million field effort to boost Northam
- Gov. McAuliffe, Republican and Democratic nominees for Va. governor, weigh-in on removal of Confederate statues in Virginia
- Vice President Pence cancels Richmond appearance Saturday to focus on North Korea (“Pence was to attend a fundraiser with GOP nominee for governor Ed Gillespie and speak at the Americans for Prosperity volunteer summit at the Richmond Marriott”)
- Northam calls for taking down Confederate statues in Virginia and moving them to museums (Great idea – if it’s all about remembering history, then put them in museums and given them proper context.)
- Kaine blasts Trump’s response to Charlottesville violence
- McAuliffe has change of heart on Confederate statues (Better late than never…)
- Hundreds gather on U-Va. campus to rally against white nationalism (Why not call it “white supremacism,” which is what it is?)
- Charlottesville victim remembered: ‘They tried to kill my child to shut her up, but … you just magnified her’
- Mayor Stoney: Commission to consider removal of Confederate statues on Richmond’s Monument Ave. (Good.)
- Dominion says it may seek to build power lines along I-66 amid opposition to route in Prince William near descendants of ex slave
- Editorial: Wise move to call off Lee Monument rally in RVA
- Charlottesville gathers for candlelit vigil to take back the Rotunda
- VRS investments end year higher than expected at 12.1 percent
- CASEY: ‘Greatest generation’ vets plan reunion in Roanoke
- Staunton man’s Facebook post about Heyer spurs boycott
- Dozens of Hampton school, city employees made trips to check out Nashville academies
- Warner pledges to help ‘food deserts’ in Danville
- Heat and high humidity spark storms today and tomorrow
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