Trump’s Proud Boys answer kept the backlash alive all day
Trump’s refusal in the debate to clearly condemn white supremacists kept ricocheting through the political conversation on September 30. The line that landed most loudly was his instruction to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” followed by a clumsy attempt to clean it up the next day. That turned a bad debate moment into a sustained story about whether he was willing to distance himself from violent extremists at all.
Trump’s refusal in the debate to clearly condemn white supremacists kept ricocheting through the political conversation on September 30. The line that landed most loudly was his instruction to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” followed by a clumsy attempt to clean it up the next day. That turned a bad debate moment into a sustained story about whether he was willing to distance himself from violent extrem…
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