For once, Donald Trump has got it right, although the politically correct masses, unfortunately including our own Prime Minister Teresa May, aren't prepared to say so.
The recent events in Charlottesville were awful but to place al of the blame on 'the far right' or 'white supremacists' is simply to ignore the facts. It always takes 2 to make a fight and, in Charlottesville, there were 2 sides representing, it seems, what some would see highly simplistically as the good guys and the bad guys.
In such scenarios, the 'bad guys' are always those of a politically right wing persuasion, be that 'extreme' or just strongly conservative. The 'good guys' are those of the left, regardless of how extreme they themselves may be. More often than not, or so it seems to me, it is the left wing 'rent-a-mobs', claiming to occupy the moral high ground and supposedly defend liberty, democracy, the 'disadvantaged' or next door's cat, that start the violence. These avowed defenders of democracy are more than happy to deny free speech and expression to anyone who they brand as 'extreme right', racist, Nazi and a hundred other things.
Most politicians, now not including President Trump but certainly including Prime Minister May, refer to right wing groups as Nazi whether or not they actually are and without having any knowledge of what Nazism was or is. They use the term simply as a means of getting on the 'right side' of the political debate and being seen to be in tune with modern liberal thinking. Shame on them.
Whatever the fine details of what happened in Charlottesville, it is a racing certainty that there were as many violent thugs claiming to be 'the good guys' as there were violent thugs branded as 'the bad guys'. The simple truth is that they were all thugs and all bad guys. Teresa May seems to not understand this at all, having said "I see no equivalence between those who propound fascist views and those who oppose them" Really ? Does she really believe that violent thuggish behaviour is fine when initiated against 'fascists' but not when directed at communists ?
The issue in Charlottesville was not to do with propounding views, it was all to do with thugs fighting other thugs. All those involved, left, right or centre, were equally culpable and it's time that our politicians grew some balls and said so, just as President Trump has done.
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