Two sides to violence

I read Tim Gardner’s uninformed rant against our president (“Cancel my Republican,” Sept. 9) and we are happy to lose him in the Republican Party. What is an affront is an American wanting our government to force all of us to think, act, and agree on what the government tells us to in a free country. This man has no concept of a free country, nor the context of what our president was addressing in Charlottesville.

There were two sides involved in confrontation and violence. White nationalists are those who want white people to be defined as a race, just as blacks and others are defined; they do not want their race erased.

They, and many others, do not want our American history erased, nor statues torn down. They do not agree with superiority in any race. Unfortunately, there were also neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered, too.

Then the opposing side was the Antifa, defined as a group of violent Communist, Socialist, police haters and anarchists. Unfortunately, the corrupt news media portrays them as against racism. This is not the case at all. Our president addressed all the people and did not promote any group. To try to present this as an affront is wrong.

Marilyn Gleeson

Spokane