45/17: We defeated the Nazis then and we can do it again today
A day of talking heads and Democrats nodding in agreement that Trump was unhinged in his Trump Tower press conference. Perhaps.

David Graham in the The Atlantic wrote:

"This might be politically successful. Trump has shown an acute sense for how to push the envelope of racist rhetoric and policy....

In the aftermath of the press conference, even Trump’s media allies seemed initially appalled, and the press said the president had veered off the rails... But that misses the point. 

A senior White House official express surprise, telling CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, 'That was all him—this wasn't our plan.'

Yet the White House fired off a set of talking points to members of Congress that didn’t blink. 

'The President was entirely correct—both sides of the violence in Charlottesville acted inappropriately, and bear some responsibility,' they stated. 

Though plenty of observers are disgusted by the president’s validation of racist protesters, no one should be surprised or take it as a spontaneous riff: It was one of the most cogent, precise, and enduring cases he has made as a politician."

We need better responses to this claim in bold, because an average person who only sporadically follows political news hears this claim and says 'that is what I saw, so those opposing the president must be wrong and the president is right.'

It seems we need more than long, wordy, responses decrying the president's moral equivalency (though I agree with the point it does not seen designed to speak to the right audience) and, instead, we need something more pithy and memorable (like the president's shrewd framing in the bolded text).

Memes about the alt-left on the beaches of Normandy are a start and thank god for satire and comedy and the arts in trying to effectively oppose the Republican noise machine now and for the past two decades.

And these memes might be onto something. Maybe focus on 'this is our time to become the Greatest Generation 2.0' and 'patriotic Americans defeated the Nazis in 1945 and we can do it again in 2017.' Just a thought.

The Democratic party leader who figures this out and leads us through responding to Trump here (because, in my view, Trump is winning and his disgraceful press conference will actually boost his numbers)...that person might become (and should become) our next candidate for president. Senator Brown? Booker? Warren? 

We need an effective response and one that unites us in a focused opposition to Trumpism.