Charlottesville’s fallout kept tightening around Trump’s brand
The aftermath of Charlottesville was still spinning through the political bloodstream on August 24, and Trump’s effort to talk tough kept running into the same problem: the country had already seen what his “both sides” rhetoric looked like. Conservative allies, business leaders, and civil-rights critics were all still recalibrating around the president’s response. The screwup here is not a single quote but a cumulative one: Trump’s instincts kept making the crisis look bigger and uglier.
First recorded Aug 24, 2017·Meaningfully updated Aug 24, 2017
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Charlottesville’s fallout kept tightening around Trump’s brand
The aftermath of Charlottesville was still spinning through the political bloodstream on August 24, and Trump’s effort to talk tough kept running into the same problem: the country had already seen what his “both sides” rhetoric looked like. Conservative allies, business leaders, and civil-rights critics were all still recalibrating around the president’s response. The screwup here is not a single quote but a cumulative one: Trump’s instincts kept making the crisis look bigger and uglier.
The aftermath of Charlottesville was still spinning through the political bloodstream on August 24, and Trump’s effort to talk tough kept running into the same problem: the country had already seen what his “both sides” rhetoric looked like. Conservative allies, business leaders, and civil-rights critics were all still recalibrating around the president’s response. The screwup here is not a single quote but a cumula…
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