Julius Krein, who founded American Affairs and has been described as a "pro-Trump journal” based on the promise to "Make America Great Again," now realizes that Trump's actions threaten the future of the country. Krein now has disavowed the president for his response to Charlottesville, and he encourages others to do the same.
He writes:
"I can’t stand by this disgraceful administration any longer, and I would urge anyone who once supported him as I did to stop defending the 45th president..."
"It is now clear that we were deluding ourselves. Either Mr. Trump is genuinely sympathetic to the David Duke types, or he is so obtuse as to be utterly incapable of learning from his worst mistakes. Either way, he continues to prove his harshest critics right..."
"Mr. Trump once boasted that he could shoot someone in the street and not lose voters. Well, someone was just killed in the street by a white supremacist in Charlottesville. His refusal this weekend to specifically and immediately denounce the groups responsible for this intolerable violence was both morally disgusting and monumentally stupid. In this, Mr. Trump failed perhaps the easiest imaginable test of presidential leadership. Rather than advance a vision of national unity that he claims to represent, his indefensible equivocation can only inflame the most vicious forces of division within our country."
“Kudos to Krein for taking a stand against racism. More Trump supporters have begun to see the danger his presidency poses to the country. We all need to speak out against this demagoguery -- regardless of our political party -- to reaffirm our values as Americans,” -- Robert Reich
By Katie Reilly
