"It got worse"

Really merc?

Seems like a very intelligent or at least rational statement by trump. As A. Hamilton I believe it was who once said, " reason falls cooly on either side".

Trump wisely differentiated between the actions of one hot head tied to one faction vs. A larger body of people protesting - a thing they had a legitimate right too as well as probably a reasonable case for.

This is a witch hunt in the sense that people need only associate something ( in this case a statue) with racism then boom! Everyone showing up for a statue is a Nazi racist with violent intent and every ones transgression and acts of instigation on the other side is automatically forgiven.

Groupthink.

I mean, to me I hear general E. Lee and I think patriot not racists. Way I understand it he himself was not even necessarily pro-slave so much as he was just with his state.

In either case the war was fought and after an honest fight people shake hands and a sense of respect is left over. That statue meant something. Now some arrogant pukes decide to use it as part of their guilty white identity crisis.

Running people over is sad, but after the tactics I've seen from these antifa you'd be hard pressed to convince me they themselves did not instigate conflict. Passive aggressive is not the same as peaceful. Destroying property - namely a statue that many people associate with their ancestors blood and sacrifice is going a wee bit beyond simple passive aggressiveness. Yet instead of admitting their degenerate tactics [yet again] successfully instigated conflict it all just goes into a pot of misconstrued evidence to label the 'other side' with.

"he himself was not even necessarily pro-slave so much as he was just with his state"

Yeah, the state fighting to PRESERVE SLAVERY. Jesus F. Christ.