Trump knows exactly what he’s doing - mainstreaming the politics of white resentment, writes @GrahamDavidA: https://t.co/ZcYJ1h6lJj

— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) August 16, 2017

“…President Trump’s short press conference Tuesday afternoon was remarkable for seeming cogent. In so many of his public statements Trump wanders, free-associates, digresses, and seems either incapable or uninterested in piecing together complete sentences. The fact that he didn’t seem to be improvising made his defense of some of those who participated in a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, more important.

It was the clearest and most precise articulation of a view that Trump has espoused since the start of his political career.”