Politics is hard. You know what's a really easy statement to make? "I, [INSERT ANY POLITICIAN'S NAME HERE], condemn the disgusting and immoral beliefs of white supremacists, the KKK, and the Nazi party. Anyone who espouses or supports such beliefs is no friend of the American people. We cannot and will not tolerate hate." How hard is that? It's a bipartisan cause that only people who are Nazis, KKK members, or white supremacists will object to. And yet it's a statement that Donald Trump couldn't bring himself to stand behind. Sure, he eventually got some version of it to crawl from his mouth on Monday, but by Tuesday he was back to his true position, which is basically that "both sides" are to blame. Weirdly, there was one unexpected big-name political figure whose team issued a strong statement:

Okay, so Robert E. Lee's "team" is his family, but still. The Confederate general was at the center of the Charlottesville nightmare quite literally, as it was a statue of Lee that both incited the rally-slash-riot and loomed over it. Now, make no mistake, regardless of what a certain segment of the population will try to tell you, Robert E. Lee is in no way an American hero. He was a traitor to this country, and a man who fought on behalf of the South's right to own slaves. (Pssst... To any Southerner who wants to "well, actually" me, "states' rights" and "economic reasons" are both euphemisms for "wanted to continue to have slave labor.") He was also a notably cruel slave owner in his own right, and even though he did at times write about slavery being a terrible practice, it was one he partook in. So I think it's fair to say that Robert E. Lee's family might be overstating things a bit.

That said, what does it say that the family of a man whose legacy is built on his fighting for slavery is being more "presidential" than our president? What does it say that they are taking a tougher stance on Nazis than Donald Trump?

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