{"id":23908,"date":"2017-08-16T00:55:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T00:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23908"},"modified":"2017-08-16T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T01:02:44","slug":"fine-people-among-the-neo-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23908","title":{"rendered":"‘Fine people’ among the neo-Nazis?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The president of the United States has provided so much grist for us out here in Flyover Country, I almost don’t know where to start.<\/p>\n

OK, I’ll start with this: Donald John Trump Sr. said the Klansmen, neo-Nazis and white supremacists comprised “many fine” individuals who had gathered in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of that statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n

Does the president believe anyone who belongs to a well-recognized hate group would qualify as a “fine” person? Is that what he believes?<\/p>\n

Well, yes he does. He said so today while launching into that amazingly stupid, ignorant rant about how “both sides” were to blame for the riot in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

Oh, sure, Trump paid tribute to the counter protesters, too, saying they had some good folks among their ranks. That was his way of equivocating, I suppose — kind of the way he used the “many sides” dodge in his initial response to the Charlottesville violence.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, I don’t know any white supremacists, or neo-Nazis, or Ku Klux Klansmen. It might be that I refuse to associate with those of that particular ilk. Why? Because I set a pretty high standard for those with whom I associate.<\/p>\n

They are “fine” individuals. None of those hate group members is anything of the sort.<\/p>\n\n

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