President Trump finally said what the nation needed to hear. Monday afternoon, he firmly denounced the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who wreaked havoc on Charlottesville, Va., over the past weekend.
The problem is, his words ring hollow as they come 48 hours too late. Saturday, in the wake of escalating violence between white supremacists and counter protestors, President Trump had a chance to unite a nation aghast by the despicable demonstration of bigotry and the loss of life as a result. He could have called out the demonstrators displaying swastikas and wearing shirts quoting Hitler for what they are: white supremacists and neo-Nazis. He could have called the man who deliberately ran people over and killed an innocent woman a terrorist.
