This is not an endorsement of Trump or anything he has said, but a critique of the Senator. Yesterday Rubio sent out six tweets to say why the Neo-Nazis were completely responsible for the violence on Saturday. I will respond to each tweet individually when I think it is appropriate. The first tweet was this: "The organizers of events which inspired & led to #charlottesvilleterroristattack are 100% to blame for a number of reasons." OK, let's hear his reasons.
"They are adherents of an evil ideology which argues certain people are inferior because of race, ethnicity or nation of origin." I agree with the senator on this point, but I would also add that the Antifa believe that any one who is conservative in any way is a fascist and a Nazi. That means they should be opposed, hated, and beaten at any opportunity. It sounds like Antifa lives up to you first qualification as well as the Neo-Nazis do..
"When an entire movement is built on anger & hatred towards people different than you, it justifies & ultimately leads to violence against them." Ok once again Antifa qualifies for the aforementioned reasons. In fact Antifa has been involved in more instances of violence than Neo-Nazis lately. Although none of them have been lethal, many have been very brutal, including several cases of head trauma and some serious visits to the emergency room. Both Antifa and the Neo-Nazis qualify in this respect no doubt.
"These groups today use SAME symbols & same arguments of #Nazi & #KKK, groups responsible for some of worst crimes against humanity ever." That is true, kind of like how Antifa will often fly the flag of the Soviet Union and those who attend the marches will use the arguments of Stalin and Lenin, who combined killed over ninety million people. Yup, Antifa qualifies again.
"Mr. President,you can't allow #WhiteSupremacists to share only part of blame. They support ideas which cost (our) nation & world so much pain." But you are letting violent communist revolutionaries that have caused our nation and world just as much pain off the hook completely. Why are you doing that, Mr. Senator?
"The #WhiteSupremacy groups will see being assigned only 50% of blame as a win. We can not allow this old evil to be resurrected." So your answer is to give the violent communist revolutionaries no blame at all even though they started much of the violence. They came with weapons ready to attack and deserve some of the blame. Don't you think that will embolden these people beyond belief? Because it will. Personally, I don't want either of these evils resurrected. Do you, Senator?
Senator Rubio, here is why what you are saying is so insane. You are saying that the violent thug that made a homemade flamethrower and brought it to the event, and tried to torch somebody isn't responsible for his own actions. You are saying that the domestic terrorists that made a homemade chemical weapon that they threw in somebody's face, who then had to go the hospital and may have permanent damage in one eye, are not responsible for their own choices and their attack. Are you serious? You can't just blame Nazis because you hate them and you think they are dangerous. You have to go wherever the evidence takes you.
Where the evidence takes me is that both sides are evil thugs who took turns starting violence. They both are a cancer that will despoil this country if we let them spread. If we let Antifa get away with the shameless violence that they displayed in Charlottesville, they will get far more emboldened and dangerous. Besides, it's just a lie to say it was all the Nazis fault. Truth means something. And all of your reasons that you listed mean nothing, if your claim isn't the truth. hit is not.
I love all of you. Have a good night.