Antifa may claim to oppose fascists, but in their violence, they look a lot like the thing they claim to hate.
Antifa may claim to oppose fascists, but in their violence, they look a lot like the thing they claim to hate.
This is the moral nihilism of Donald Trump, the alt-right and the white power movement nestled comfortably in its shadow. There is no right and wrong. No moral high ground. No lines that cannot be crossed. There is only the muck through which we all sift and all that matters is who managed to climb to the top of the biggest pile mud.
The insistence by Trump and others that the violence in Charlottesville is the fault of “many sides” is an act of willful ignorance that refuses to acknowledge the racists at the center of the storm
He fears people he knows nothing about and that he has never met and have done him no wrong. He simply fears them. They represent the other, that dark shadow we all instinctively worry is out there, just out of sight, waiting to cause us harm.
Sometimes the simplest intervention is all that is needed. Sometimes, a sharp punch to the nose – preferably a metaphorical punch rather than a blow of bone and meat – is all that is required to change someone’s mind.
The Grant Rant 
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