What a mess. As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to—or even allow for the existence of—other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can’t get along.
Counter demonstrators (dubbed the ‘Alt-Left’) photographing white supremacist at the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)
President Donald Trump has attempted to establish a false equivalence between neo-Nazis and the anti-fascist, anti-racist leftists who were most recently seen resisting neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia.
