The people saying "obviously the Nazis are worse, but the people who showed up with bats ready for a fight were also bad" aren't wrong, but I'd assert they're missing the point.
If Trump had come out with some massive, powerful, scathing condemnation of white supremacy and Nazi/Klan imagery and said he is disgusted that they use his name, then went on to say something about trying to handle things as peacefully as possible and not trying to meet hatred with violence, that'd be a whole other thing. Still a debate to be had, but I'd respect that a lot more.
Trump's attitude, outside of the forced condemnation 48 hours that he then immediately basically admitted was forced out of him on Twitter, has been "they are just as bad." He has elevated the status of the people who showed up to protest against Klansmen and Nazis to being "just as bad" as Klansmen and Nazis. That's despicable, ESPECIALLY in light of the beatings and the terror attack from the supremacists in this event.
It's fucking crazy that so many don't understand this. ---
