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Opinion: When Trump defended his Charlottesville comments today, this is what I thought
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Please don’t sit at brunch, sipping your mimosa, tweeting about your ‘#allyship’, as if that will absolve you of your lack of action over the last couple of years

White nationalist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia. A state of emergency is declared, August 12 2017A white nationalist demonstrator walks into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

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