I have been following this story as best I can both on TV and online, and all I can understand is that I don't understand. For instance, the driver of that car is portrayed in one version as a white supremacist who purposefully attacked the anti-supremacist demonstrators. In another version he is a victim himself, one who was fleeing from an Antifa mob which was attacking his car. Scared and in a panic he raced to get away from the mob and unintentionally plowed into the crowd.

I do know a couple of things. For example, VA governor and close Clinton confidant Terry McAulliffe disparaged participation in the rally prior to it happening, and reports have it he declared a state of emergency before it even began. The city authorities have a reputation for being on the left and opposed the demonstrators as being white supremacists. I don't know if the demonstrators were supremacists, but I do know that is what the MSM is claiming, either that or they were AltRight (whatever that means). Which brings up the question of whether the MSM is going to report all this fairly or use it to promote Leftist propaganda. After all the counter demonstrators were not exactly the Vienna Boys Choir. Will that be pointed out?

Lastly, I worry about what this portends. Maybe nothing, maybe it's an isolated event, but it reminds me of the street battles which occurred between the Fascists and the Communists toward the end of the Weimar Republic. Not that we will produce our own Hitler, but he American people will not tolerate anarchism and no one can say how this will impact our civil liberties.

Zitat

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The original protestors who attended the two 'Unite the Right' were described early on as including people protesting political correctness suppressing free speech and re-writing history, the demonization of their southern heritage, and denigration of Western Civilization.

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That leads to one of my major questions. Who started the violence? I have not seen that addressed anywhere. Was it Algernonpj's "original protestors" or was a group of people with distasteful opinions set upon by antiFa and BLM thugs? To me this not only impacts how one assesses the events in Charlottesville, but it also impacts on how the President is being treated. The Left has a new meme, that the President failed to specifically condemn the supposed racist groups supposedly behind the demonstration. Thus, claim his critics, he is tacitly showing he approves of their rhetoric and welcomes their support (this despite his earlier condemnations of groups like the KKK and his condemnation of hate on both sides). Furthermore, I have yet to see these same critics condemn the violent actions of the antiFa and BLM goons.

The double standard is ugly, hypocritical, and quite standard.