If you pay attention to the never-ending trashing by the New York Times, the Pravda-like conclusions of political reporters will come as no surprise.
Were nearly all Republicans really outraged by the president’s handling of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia last Sunday?
According to the paper, the president has embraced the alt-right, “throwing the GOP into a crisis, dividing his core supporters who have urged him on and painting himself as a bigot.”
Inadvertently, however, you can tease out the truth from the propaganda spin. What really happened there?
Michelle Piercy, who travelled to Charlottesville to participate as a neutral peacekeeper for American Warrior Revolution, a group that stands up for individual free speech rights and acts as a buffer between competing voices, knew there was going to be violence, but went anyway.
“We were made aware that the situation could be dangerous, and we were prepared.” Piercy says. The Wichita night-worker for a Kansas retirement home said that “the situation was completely disorganized, the police were responsible for herding white supremacists on the street where Antifa and BLM were located. All chaos broke out. I witnessed police officers say, ‘that’s not our problem’ and ‘you shouldn’t have come’ and refused to help the injured.”
Piercy says that she doesn’t support white supremacy, Naziism, or alt-right causes. Nor does she believe the president has that in his heart.
“My partner is a black man who travelled to Charlottesville for the same reason I did [to protect free speech]. We were in groups and he’s a very good man. What we were trying to do is talk to Antifa and Black Lives Matter and let them know that the way they were protesting is the wrong way to go about it.”
Blaming the police is one thing, but criticizing President Trump’s handling of the violence that led to the deaths of three people is another. Piercy says “I believe President Trump is doing what he can.”
In a story headlined, “Trump’s Embrace of Racially Charged Past Puts Republicans in Crisis”, The Times cited two polls stating that “barely one-third of Americans now say they approve of the job he is doing – a fresh low for a president who was already among the most unpopular in modern times.”
Wait, what? Isn’t this the same NYT whose polling showed Hillary Clinton for the win in 2016? More on those in a moment.
“Good people can go to Charlottesville,” says Piercy, who drove all night with other people who she says “also love and defend free speech, who are the furtherest thing from bigots, Nazis or white supremacists.
The base has only gotten stronger, more determined to fight back. The political and media elite hold Trump to a harsh double-standard that demands he answer for the sins of a radical, racist fringe.
But back to those polls quoted by the New York Times in which Gallup reports, “right-leaning voters were drifting away from Mr. Trump, with 79 percent approval today compared to 91 percent in June.”
Stephen K. Bannon, the President’s (now former) chief strategist says that if “Democrats want to fight over Confederate monuments, [then] it is a fight the president will win. Tear down more statues. Say the revolution is coming. I can’t get enough of it.”
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