Charlottesville’s Far-Right Rally Starts the Weekend Trump Couldn’t Contain
The Unite the Right rally began in Charlottesville on August 11, setting the stage for the violence and presidential mess to come. Trump had already spent the summer normalizing grievance politics, and the gathering showed how quickly that ecosystem could turn poisonous. Even before the worst bloodshed, the event exposed a federal response that would soon look badly behind the curve.
The Unite the Right rally began in Charlottesville on August 11, setting the stage for the violence and presidential mess to come. Trump had already spent the summer normalizing grievance politics, and the gathering showed how quickly that ecosystem could turn poisonous. Even before the worst bloodshed, the event exposed a federal response that would soon look badly behind the curve.
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