Perspective: Charlottesville is an enduring symbol. But of what? Biden gets it.
University of Virginia police stood guard at the Rotunda after hundreds of white nationalists and white supremacists carrying torches marched there in August 2017. By Michael Signer Michael Signer, an attorney and a lecturer at the University of Virginia, was mayor of Charlottesville, Va., from 2016 to 2018 and currently sits on the City Council. He is founder and chair of Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project.
Some define Charlottesville as one of the worst self-inflicted wounds of the Trump administration . Still others use Charlottesville to denote the many shortcomings of federal, state and local government. For many Virginians, Charlottesville has come to mean the punishing defeat of Republicans across the Commonwealth in legislative elections in the fall of 2017.
We have learned since that the elephant is even bigger and more menacing than we first thought. Last fall, Janet Reitman wrote an article in the New York Times magazine titled “U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.” She found that Trump’s strategy against domestic terrorism was, simply put, “broken.
Political violence can spread. The Christchurch massacre in New Zealand bore dangerous similarities to the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, both apparently fueled by a toxic combination of white nationalism and conspiracy theories online. Three historically black churches were recently destroyed by arson in Louisiana.
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