08-21-2017, 04:13 AM
Quote:Donald Trump sent shock waves through the political world with his broad defense of participants in a white supremacist rally last weekend, praising them for obtaining a permit and describing some as “very fine people.” He previously put Nazis, the KKK and white nationalists on the same moral plane as those who showed up to protest them, casting blame on “many sides.” Some have been repelled by Trump’s conduct. Two White House business councils disbanded as some of the nation’s top CEO found any association with Trump too toxic to maintain.Rush Limbaugh says white supremacists and the KKK ‘are not the problem,’ warns of second civil war – ThinkProgress
Scores of charities have canceled scheduled events at Trump’s private club, Mar-a-lago. A small but growing group of Republican members of Congress have criticized Trump directly. At the same time, powerful forces on the right are now lining up behind Trump, validating and extending Trump’s views. Among them is Rush Limbaugh, the powerful right-wing radio host who boasts a weekly audience of 26 million people. Yesterday, Limbaugh delivered a full-throated and frightening defense of Trump, dismissing white supremacy as a problem and warning listeners that “we are on the cusp of a second civil war.” Limbaugh’s comments were laced with anti-Semetic tropes, blaming the violence in Charlottesville on “people like George Soros and any other number of international financiers whose objective it is to take the United States out and down as a superpower.”