My dear June, please do remember that this was a CAMPAIGN stop (or, not), before he was elected and showed the world he is what he told everyone he is.
I have family in Chicago, who were there during the disastrous 1968 DNC as well as for this. Supporters screamed and pushed protestors, spit on them, and in at least one case, bashed the window of a car with an Obama sticker on it. This from my conservative, right wing relatives, eyewitnesses.
Notice that neither Faux nor the mainstream media paid a lot of attention either way.
I agree that the anti fascists, the Black Block, and the anarchists are just as rude and violent, if not more so. However, you need to also know that those groups are NOT supporters of either side. They, like Trump’s Nazi supporters, simply want to fight, and honestly, they don’t give a rats behind who’s side they fight for or against.
Both of my brothers were Trump supporters. One wised up; the other, like you, points fingers at those other groups and says the same thing — ’Look at them, they are just horrible!’ while ignoring what is going on with his side. We call it wearing blinders. Others term it hypocrisy. Either way, we all do it to some extent.
No matter the side, the goal is one thing, and one thing only — publicity. 15 minutes of fame. Get on TV, in the papers, social media. The real tragedy is that a Trump supporter KILLED a non Trump supporter. I do notice that the less-than-humans among us blame the woman, and that goes for Faux, with their horrifying rhetoric NOT putting the blame where the blame belongs, but with the decent people who don’t want to go back to where the Nazi protestors and, apparently, Trump, want to go back to. Were the anti fascists, Black Block and anarchists there, inciting violence? Absolutely. Were they on the same side as the woman? Absolutely not. Being blind to that fact is a machination of the right wing media, which does as you feel the left wing media does — spins facts to present their side in the best possible way. However, blaming an innocent woman, run down by a cowardly, Trump supporting, self styled Nazi ignoramus, goes so far beyond what the left wing media is being accused of, is simply incomprehensible as well as shameful.
For the record, I’m a life long Independent. I was less than thrilled by Hillary, but absolutely horrified by Trump. The job of President of the (Dis-)United States is NOT an entry level position. To vote in a business failure, born into wealth and privilege, that dodged the draft, refused to pay subcontractors for their work unless they sued him, propped up his ‘empire’ with daddy’s money and then when that ran out, foreign money, well, that was simply mind blowing. To continue to support this disaster of an administration, un-American.
We deserve better. Even those who voted for him, those now forgotten but not fully realizing it.
