By this calculation it may be said that most people who were there were good people expressing a lower level of rhetorical discussion, who simply either felt that history needed to be preserved, or that objectionable history be removed.
These are the people Trump referenced as good Americans.
I don’t think so. For example, Trump referred to his supporters who deliberately drove to where the protestors were gathered in Portland, and who used paint balls and bear spray against those people, as “GREAT PATRIOTS”. He would never repudiate them, they are part of his base. He can’t afford to.
And these were the people in Charlottesville whom he was referring to when saying there were “fine people” on both sides. These people seen in this Vice report from Charlottesville were the “fine people” Trump referred to. He never comes right out and says “Neo Nazis are fine people”. He does not have to. It’s always quite easy to know how he feels about people like those seen in this Vice report, and he always finds ways to reassure them he is on their side. Always.
When he said “there are fine people on both sides”, it was these people who would have smiled and exchanged high fives all around, upon hearing that. And I’m sure he knew that. He knew that, and it’s that truth that goes right over the head of people like pjf. The important question is “who took comfort from those remarks?” The Neo Nazis did! That is the point you guys continue to deny.
Trump is always careful not to completely repudiate followers like this. QAnon, for example, is the most recent group that he can’t completely repudiate, because he knows that people who believe that he, Donald Trump, is going to break up a ring of Democrat-led pedophiles and baby eating cannibals are part of his base. Imagine that. Being unable to repudiate such a belief, because you want their votes. That is some intelligent base, lol. Instead, he said “Is there something wrong with that?” Well, Donald, now that you ask....Most rational human beings would call such a belief “nuts”, putting it mildly, but we’re not talking about a rational human being. We’re talking about the leading proponent of conspiracism-thought alive today.
Some of Trump’s “fine people” at Charlottesville: