memeorandum: The Curse Of Identity Politics (Rod Dreher/The American Conservative)

9:10 AM ET, August 14, 2017

Top Items:

Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:

Here's What Really Happened In Charlottesville — Who came ready for violence? Was it on “many sides”? The answers are clearer on the ground. — Reporting From — Yes, you can blame the Nazis. — The race-fueled chaos that wracked Charlottesville, Virginia, finally came to rest on Sunday night.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Week and New York Times

Glenn Thrush / New York Times:

White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump's First Charlottesville Remarks — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The White House, under siege over President Trump's equivocal response to this weekend's bloody white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday condemned “white supremacists” for inciting the violence that led to one death.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

Hurt and Angry, Charlottesville Tries to Regroup From Violence — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of Christ, arrived in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday morning expecting that there might be violence.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Althouse and Business Insider

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:

One group loved Trump's remarks about Charlottesville: White supremacists — President Trump's public remarks on the violence in Charlottesville have been criticized by many, including members of his own political party, for being insufficient and vague. — But Trump's choice of words …

ProPublica:

Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville — State police and National Guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters. ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson was on the scene and reports that the authorities turned …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Guardian, Business Insider, The Daily Caller and Washington Post

Katie Mettler / Washington Post:

GoDaddy bans neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer for disparaging woman killed at Charlottesville rally — After months of criticism that GoDaddy was providing a platform for hate speech, the Web hosting company announced late Sunday that it will no longer house the Daily Stormer …

Discussion: Arizona Republic, TechCrunch, NPR, The Verge, The Moderate Voice and Mashable

Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:

‘Look at the campaign he ran’: Charlottesville mayor is becoming one of Trump's strongest critics — A white nationalist site calls him “anti-white.” — An article it published in May outlines some highlights of Michael Signer's term as the mayor of Charlottesville: his endorsement …

Discussion: CBS News, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times, Talking Points Memo and Media Matters for America

Monique Garcia / Chicago Tribune:

Illinois Senate approves resolution asking police to recognize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations — White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., on the morning of Aug. 12, 2017, during a “Unite the Right” rally.

Discussion: The Hill

New York Times:
Far-Right Groups Surge Into National View in Charlottesville

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed

Discussion: Daily Kos

Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
The Statue at the Center of Charlottesville's Storm

Discussion: Detroit Free Press, The Guardian, FiveThirtyEight and Power Line

Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House says Trump ‘condemns’ white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, Power Line, CBS Boston, TheBlaze, Telegraph, Daily Progress, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today, Associated Press, IJR, The Guardian and twitchy.com

WCPO:
Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields Jr. was ‘infatuated’ with Nazis, ex-teacher says

Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine, CBS News, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, The Guardian, CBS Miami, The Daily Signal, Associated Press, KQED News, Business Insider, AOL, New York Times, Talking Points Memo and ABC News, more at Mediagazer »

gofundme.com:
I Was Beaten By White Supremacists

Discussion: The FADER and The Root

Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:

EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Says He Will ‘Blow’ McMaster, Drudge ‘The F**k Out’ If Bannon Is Ousted — Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Donald Trump, warned Sunday of dire consequences for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Matt Drudge if White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is pushed out of the West Wing.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, israpundit.org, Power Line, RedState, AOL, Axios, Politico and Business Insider

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier — The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier. — Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Week, The Daily Caller, RedState, ABC News and Politico

CNN:
Trump advisers signal the knives are out for Bannon

Discussion: Political Wire

Jerusalem Post:
Comment: US National Security Adviser McMaster is a friend to Israel

Discussion: Jewish Telegraphic Agency

ABC News:
Analysis: Why won't Donald Trump condemn white nationalism?

Discussion: Politico and Associated Press

Wall Street Journal:

We're Holding Pyongyang to Account — The U.S., its allies and the world are united in our pursuit of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. — In the past few months, multiple illegal North Korean ballistic-missile and ICBM tests—coupled with the most recent bellicose language from Pyongyang …

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios

New York Times:

North Korea's Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say — North Korea's success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory …

Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal: Top U.S. General Readies Military Plan for North Korea, but Pushes for Diplomacy

HuffPost:

Heather Heyer ‘Murdered While Protesting Against Hate’ In Charlottesville, Friends Say — “If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention,” read Heyer's last public post on Facebook. — RUCKERSVILLE, Va. The woman who was killed in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday when a car plowed …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, WTVR-TV, Mashable, New York's PIX11, Common Dreams and Hit & Run

Washington Post:
Charlottesville victim: ‘She was there standing up for what was right’

Discussion: CBS Boston and Talking Points Memo

Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer: 'I'm Proud Of What She Did'

Discussion: The Week, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, The Stranger … and Media Matters for America

CNN:
Father: Heather Heyer was a champion for others

Discussion: FOX2now.com and FOX6Now.com

Christina Caron / New York Times:
Heather Heyer, Charlottesville Victim, Is Recalled as ‘a Strong Woman’

Discussion: Narativ, New York Magazine, USA Today, The Guardian and New York Daily News

Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:

The Curse Of Identity Politics — Charlottesville is the kind of America that identity politics is calling into being. It's time for straight talk about that. — On the Right, the story is fairly straightforward. Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and their ilk have to be condemned in no uncertain terms, and marginalized.

Discussion: Instapundit

Wall Street Journal:

The Poison of Identity Politics — The return of white nationalism is part of a deeper ailment. — As ever in this age of Donald Trump, politicians and journalists are reducing the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday to a debate over Mr. Trump's words and intentions.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog