Charlottesville is the kind of America that identity politics is calling into being. It's time for straight talk about that.
On the Right, the story is fairly straightforward. Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and their ilk have to be condemned in no uncertain terms, and marginalized. The president's coy rhetoric, dancing around these people for fear of alienating them, has to end. (I don't expect it to end, but others on the Right need to speak up to condemn him.)
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