Aug. 15, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where the Justice Department commits resources to finding the facts behind the bloodshed in Charlottesville, Virginia, as President Trump recalibrates his rhetoric. We've got news from Fred Lucas and commentary from Jarrett Stepman. The personal side of repression in Venezuela is on view in Kelsey Harkness' new video. Plus: Nolan Peterson on what's really happening in Ukraine, Dinesh D'Souza on the left's fascist underpinnings, and Donald Trump on the true character of America.
The clash between Nazis and leftists in the streets was an ugly and surreal scene one would associate with 1930s Germany, not a sleepy American town in the heart of central Virginia.
Francisco Marquez is an ex-political prisoner who now lives in the United States, and Wuilly Arteaga was recently thrown into jail after peacefully playing his violin on the streets.
The federal civil rights investigation into the weekend violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, could involve domestic terrorism and hate crimes charges and isn’t limited to the driver who plowed his vehicle into a crowd of people, according to the Trump administration.
"I don’t know why President Trump hasn’t fired John Koskinen since there is more evidence the agency is mismanaged," says Peter Flaherty, of the National Legal and Policy Center.
Three years after the war began, and more than two years after the Minsk II cease-fire went into effect, Ukrainian soldiers are still out there in the trenches, weathering daily artillery attacks, mortars, snipers, tank shots, and rockets, in a static war that feels like it has no end.
“Racism is evil," says President Trump. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans."
The bullying and terrorizing of conservatives on campus, the shaming of Republicans in the media, the defilement of the American flag, the disruption of Trump rallies—all of this behavior receives its moral justification in sociologist Herbert Marcuse’s famous—or infamous—essay.
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