The violence in Virginia shows that the nation is gripped by a deep malaise – and is writhing under its disastrous effects
Carol Anderson is the author of White RageThe United States is in a tailspin. White supremacists are on the march – and gain left a trail of blood and destruction in their wake. A march in Charlottesville,Virginia, filled with torches, or Nazi flags and chants of “White Lives Matter,” culminated in violence that claimed at least one life, and left many more injured.
This is just what many feared the Trump presidency would unleash. David Duke, and the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan,supported that view when he said on Saturday that the march “fulfills the promises of Donald Trump” to “grasp our country back.”
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Source: theguardian.com