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Джо Байден начал свою избирательную кампанию в президенты в апреле 2019 с видео из Шарлотсвилля. Он сказал, что борьба идет за "душу страны": "We are in the battle for the soul of this nation".

"Charlottesville Virginia is home to the author of one of the greatest documents in human history. We know it by heart. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. We’ve heard it so often it almost a cliché but it’s who we are. We haven’t always lived up to these ideals, Jefferson himself didn’t. But we’ve never before walked away from them. Charlottesville is also home to a defining moment for this nation in the last few years. It was there, on August of 2017, we saw clansman, and white supremacists and neo Nazis come out in the open. Their crazed faces, illuminated by torches, veins bulging and bearing the fangs of racism.
Chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s. They were met by a courageous group of Americans, and a violent clash ensued, and a brave young woman lost her life. And that’s when we heard the words of the President of the United States that stunned the world, and shocked the conscious of this nation. He said there were “very fine people on both sides.” Very fine people on both sides?
With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate, and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had seen in my life time. I wrote at the time that we are in the battle for the soul of this nation. Well that’s even more true today. We are in the battle for the soul of this nation. I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. But if we give Donald trump 8 years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. Who we are. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen."
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/former-vice-president-joe-biden-launches-2020-presidential-campaign-04-25-2019-100436548

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В ежегодном отчете SPLC говорится:

In 2019, the third year of the Trump presidency, data gathered by the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) documents a continued and rising threat to inclusive democracy: a surging white nationalist movement that has been linked to a series of racist and antisemitic terror attacks and has coincided with an increase in hate crime. The number of white nationalist groups rose for the second straight year, a 55 percent increase since 2017, when Trump’s campaign energized white nationalists who saw in him an avatar of their grievances and their anxiety over the country’s demographic changes. The numbers are a barometer, though an imperfect one, of the size and growth of the movement.
A series of terror attacks in the United States and abroad—including the mass killings in El Paso, Texas, and New Zealand—have led federal authorities to put more focus on combating terrorism that stems from the movement. FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee in early February that the agency had upgraded its assessment of the threat posed by racially motivated extremists to a “national threat priority.” His remarks amplified his message from November, when he told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that a majority of domestic terror attacks are “fueled by some type of white supremacy.”
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/03/18/executive-summary-2019-year-hate

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