Trump Disgusts Republicans. What Are They Going to Do?

President Trump has been widely and appropriately condemned for reacting to the Charlottesville horror with remarks about “both sides,” and for comparing Confederate generals to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and for reacting to white supremacist terrorism by saying “there is another side.”

Sure, I’ve been critical of the left's "antifa" tactics to counter fascism. (Among other things, they enabled the white nationalists to cry victimhood in Charlottesville.) But the time to critique the left fringe is not after someone with vile racist views has just murdered a protester. That moment is the appropriate time to condemn white supremacist ideology, denounce the murderer, and express the hope that the nation can learn to live together better as we mourn our dead.