The violence this week is both shocking and not shocking. We have a president bringing back the word “Nationalist” and attacking “globalists” as though those words lack the connotations they have taken on over the last century. We have a president who cages children, calls immigrants an infestation, rails that black football players who take a knee “maybe shouldn’t be in the country.”

Trump, of course, is just a symptom of the rot and not the rot itself. He is the raving id of a deranged nation, but his thundering and clowning at the podium, his bullying and name calling have ultimately granted permission for white nationalists to come out of the shadows — to march in Charlottesville and to engage in the kind of violence we witnessed this week.

I can hear the response from my Trump supporting friends — both sides, both sides, both sides. Antifa (essentially a defensive, if wrongheaded, organization) and the GOP softball practice shooter will be raised as the examples. But there is no equivalence here.

Here are two pieces I wrote this week on the violence:

Just Another Day in Post-Racial America

https://medium.com/@newspoet41/just-another-day-in-post-racial-america-8631f60a2e?source=linkShare-be003fc7798b-1540741693

The Sabbath Shooting: Us, Them, and Trump

https://medium.com/@newspoet41/the-sabbath-shooting-us-them-and-president-trump-d02603bf2bb8?source=linkShare-be003fc7798b-1540742411

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The Target near me is hiring — starting at $12 an hour. Fed Ex is too, as the sign on Beekmann Road pointed out. Pay rate: $12.60 an hour. In general, warehouse and other manual labor jobs listed for the area (Central Jersey) on Craig’s List are paying the same — $12 an hour. Or there is a job for a machine set-up operator — $15 an hour, entry level.