<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Clashes and Backlash
What We’re Following
Charlottesville Fallout: President Trump dissolved two business-focused initiatives—his Manufacturing Council and his Strategic & Policy Forum—after a number of industry leaders resigned from the council over the president’s implication that white supremacist protesters and their associates were morally equivalent with aggressive counter-protesters. The decision suggests Trump is embracing white identity politics at the cost of the jobs agenda that also helped him get elected—yet in practice, the key pieces of his business-friendly policy will remain. Meanwhile, the White House held firm, issuing a series of talking points to congressional Republicans that asserted “the President was entirely correct,” along with a transcript of his inflammatory press conference. Read it here.
Trump’s remarks on Charlottesville included a who sometimes use violent tactics. After all, white supremacist groups rely on a victimization narrative to radicalize their recruits . And as tensions ratchet up, David Frum argues that open-carry laws .
