White-Nationalist Violence Likely An Issue in the 2020 Race: Less than 24 hours after President Trump doubled-down to defend his “there were fine people on both sides” comment about the deadly 2017 white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the rising tide of white-nationalism has struck again as angry racist John T. Earnest shot up a Jewish synagogue in Poway, California - killing one person and injuring three others.
The situation is getting so out of hand, that Vice President Mike Pence actually felt compelled to take to twitter and attempt to explain to rabid Trump supporters that “anti-semitism isn’t just wrong - it’s evil.”
And while I’ve been quite critical of Mike Pence in the past, I do have to admit it’s a step in the right direction for a member of the Trump Administration to try and explain to their followers that killing innocent Jews in their house of worship probably isn’t the best way to make a political point.
That said, I suspect the general feeling among White House staffers is that John T. Earnest isn’t really a racist, he’s simply “another fine person - who happens to be on the other side.” Or, as the NRA would likely label him, “just a good guy, with a gun.”
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