Cory Booker (D-Twitter) is known for expertly mixing love with a calculated dosage of partisan intolerance in his ambition-driven social media diatribes, race-baiting for Hillary Clinton while auditioning for the vice presidency and, more recently, comparing Planned Parenthood activists to veterans of the D-Day landings.
In the wake of Saturday’s fatal clash between Nazis and Communists/Socialist/Anti-Police activists in Charlottesville, Virginia?
The junior New Jersey senator told Facebook fans that he knows who’s to blame.
“The evil of hate is also the ignorance that breeds it, the apathy that sustains it and the Trump-like rhetoric that gives it license to flourish,” Booker, a 2020 prospect for the Democrat presidential nomination, declared in a multi-paragraph screed.
Contrary to Booker’s narrative of Trump-inspired conflict, the violent American Nazi movement and Antifa, the communist movement behind yesterday’s original rally, have a long history of antagonism. America’s Nazi movement peaked in the years before World War II; Antifa itself finds its origins in the Occupy movement of the 2000s, long before Donald Trump ran for president.
President Trump sought to provide some much-needed context in his official Saturday response.
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides,” Trump said during a statement delivered from his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. “It has been going on for a long time in our country — not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. It has been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America.”
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