McCain, in particular, has made it clear that his first priority is to resist Donald Trump. He has little interest in working for the American people.
The Charlottesville protests brought about media rhetoric, which McCain and Romney quoted in almost identical language.
No, not the same. One side is racist, bigoted, Nazi. The other opposes racism and bigotry. Morally different universes.— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) August 16, 2017
There’s no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate& bigotry. The President of the United States should say so— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 16, 2017
Liberals and leftist media stated there was only one group of villains present in Charlottesville, while President Donald Trump saw the whole picture clearly. Both McCain and Romney are feeding into the media frenzy by staying silent about the violent Antifa group.
Senator Marco Rubio launched a Twitterstorm that absolved Antifa of any and all responsibility in the events that lead up to the Charlottesville riots.
Shockingly, Rubio embraced the Crybully Creed, the left-wing fascist idea that hate speech justifies a violent response. Your speech is violence; their violence is speech. Yes, Rubio used exactly those words in his third tweet.
The organizers of events which inspired & led to #charlottesvilleterroristattack are 100% to blame for a number of reasons. 1/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
They are adherents of an evil ideology which argues certain people are inferior because of race, ethnicity or nation of origin. 2/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
When entire movement built on anger & hatred towards people different than you,it justifies & ultimately leads to violence against them 3/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
These groups today use SAME symbols & same arguments of #Nazi & #KKK, groups responsible for some of worst crimes against humanity ever 4/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
Mr. President,you can’t allow #WhiteSupremacists to share only part of blame.They support idea which cost nation & world so much pain 5/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
The #WhiteSupremacy groups will see being assigned only 50% of blame as a win.We can not allow this old evil to be resurrected 6/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
Rubio’s third tweet endorses violence against hate speeches, and his last one agrees with left-wing idealism that we must ignore Antifa in order to condemn white nationalism.
In the Weekly Standard, Michael Warren argues that Trump had a duty to “denounce specifically and unequivocally the white nationalists whose demonstration last weekend in Virginia became violent,” even though Warren acknowledges “there were left-wing counter-protesters who were also violent and antagonistic in Charlottesville.”
The Republicans without backbones in Washington jumped on the “only one side” theory, giving the violent left a free pass. Antifa is a much larger group than any Nazi wannabes could ever hope to be. Freedom of speech, my friends.