In one of his usual vacuous replies — to my Jan. 13 blog — Justin Hale remarked, “In an interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday evening, President Trump said: "I've said it many times, let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK [Ku Klux Klan]. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys.”

There are many things wrong with that statement, and one need look no further than back when Donald thought he owned the country in 2017 and his “both sides” remarks following the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The killing of peace activist Heather Heyer and the near death of a badly beaten young Black man. It’s all still readily available on the Internet.

Speech writers quickly amended Trump’s initial remarks in an attempt to make them more palatable to the pubic. It didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now.

And this same local troll is forever finding fault with the mainstream media (“MSM”) for reporting to the populace what’s going on — and has been doing so since the birth of our democratic government during the closing years of the 18th century . . .

The Associated Press (Lisa Mascaro) reported Jan. 20, “Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed Wednesday when two senators, as expected, refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster after a raw, emotional debate . .

“Despite a day of debate and speeches that often carried echoes of an earlier era when the Republican filibuster was deployed by opponents of civil rights legislation, Democrats could not persuade holdout Senators Kyrsten Siena of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia to change the Senate procedures on this one bill and allow a simple majority to advance it. . . “

So-called Democrats Siena and Manchin voted with the Republicans as the “Freedom to Vote John R. Lewis Act” failed 52-48. A tie vote would have been broken by Vice President Kamala Harris.
The bill passed in the House. it would have made Election Day a national holiday, ensured access to early voting and mail-in ballots and enable the Justice Department to intervene in states with a history of voters interference — and made other such changes

Republican states meanwhile are obviously passing current laws making it more difficult for Blacks and others to vote — by consolidating polling places, requiring certain types of polling-place identification, etc.

I agree with President Joe Biden that opponents to the Lewis voting bill are”segregationists”. . . which is merely a gentle synonym for “racists.”