Why can't Trump disavow the Charlottesville neo-Nazi carnage?

I don't normally agree with Mathew d'Acncona, but this article is superb and nails it:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/charlottesville-white-supremacists-donald-trump

I am more than happy to agree with a moderate Conservative like d'Ancona or moderate Democrats like Viginia's Governor Terry Macauliffe and attack the extreme right; unlike Donald Trump. I could quote the whole article but here is a taste:

[quote] Only last week he (Trump) threatened a distant dictator with “fire and fury”. Yet, confronted with homegrown bigotry and its violent consequences, he dons the kid gloves of a politician anxious not to upset the militant wing of his base.[/quote]

[quote] It is hard to say how far he shares the alt-right convictions of his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who believes that the essence of American identity is Judaeo-Christian nationalism and that this identity is in mortal peril. But, as candidate and president, he has been quite happy to surf on a tide of white resentment, careful not to disavow strongly the support of extremists and bigots.[/quote]

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Absolutely f*cking SHAMEFUL !!!!!!!
Both the perpetrators of this mess and the idiots who were 'supposed' to be upholding AND enforcing the law !

Trump is a puppet we know that's the 'deal with the Devil' he made when he was given the Republican seal of approval as their candidate.
So it's become 'unfair' to criticize him for EVERYTHING that's going on there because you don't know for certain WHO exactly is running the country, and what/whose policy is being followed.

But to not make a clear and concise condemnation of this act of hatred merely leaves the door open for these thugs, and others, to move on to the next place they try and terrorize !

Today it was ONE town, tomorrow suppose it's three or four ?
Suppose this is the far right's plan to go from one place to another causing chaos and pain across the south thereby enabling 'the powers that be' to create draconian laws limiting ordinary people's rights or freedoms ?

This situation could and SHOULD have been killed 200 years ago !
The fact that it's gone from midnight lynchings to daylight mass murder via a vehicle shows that there is NOTHING holding those with such hatred in the South to account.

A very VERY sad day for humanity !