On Monday night, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo delivered a charged monologue on political violence in the wake of the “Unite the Right 2” alt-right rally that took place on Sunday. Cuomo drew some distinctions between left- and right-wing perpetrators of that violence, which were well intentioned — but dead wrong.

After paying brief lip service to antifa’s physical antagonism toward the press and police, he made the case for the far-left group and why they should not be held in the same contempt as violent neo-Nazis and racists. Cuomo said: