I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW

Nothing like a couple weeks’ vacation to settle the nerves, right?  On Monday afternoon, Donald Trump was tanned, rested, and unready.  He was also righteously pissed off.  He’d allowed himself to be talked into offering a half-hearted condemnation of his alt-right followers in Charlottesville, for which he was widely scorned by everyone outside the Fox-Breitbart axis of evil.  So he did what he always does when he’s mad.  He tweeted a complaint about the “Fake News Media” who are never satisfied with his very, very good statements. 

But that didn’t relieve the pressure.  His anger boiled over on Tuesday afternoon in a press conference that will go down as the craziest in the history of the event.  Google a photo of the event and take a look at John Kelly, who looks like he’s passing a kidney stone.

Trump was tired of pretending to be reasonable.  Instead, he unleashed his id, doubling down on his original “many sides” position: “There was a group on this side, you can call them the left. You have just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group.”  He called some of the Tiki-torch terrorists “very fine people.”

David Duke spoke for the Klan-Nazi community when he tweeted “Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa.”

It can’t get any clearer than that.  Republicans can’t pretend they don’t know what kind of man their president is.  Now we’ll see what kind of men (and women) they are.