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Monday, August 14, 2017

Charlottesville

There's no shortage of commentary on last weekend's events in Charlottesville, I just want to share a few videos...

The first few videos came out of last year's election:



Excerpts from a speech HRC gave in August 2016 in Reno, NV:



And one of her ads:




The stakes were clear last November. We can't say we weren't warned.


Finally, this excerpt from an old WWII anti-Nazi film reminds us both that these ideas are not new, but also that at our best as a nation we have rejected them:




Hopefully people of good conscience will finally come together to reject Trump's brand of politics.  (Jennifer Rubin, conservative blogger for the WaPo, has some good ideas about how Republicans could get on the right side of history.)  Given that all this was out for all to see before last year's election it's hard to have a lot of optimism... but as Jason Molina put it, "hope dies last of all."


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