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** This kicked up something fierce after the White Nationalist demonstrations in Charlottesville that ended with the death of counter-protestor Heather Heyer. Trump's response saying "there were fine people on both sides" felt like he was placating racial violence, and follow-up comments afterward did nothing to dissuade that notion. In the following week there were mass resignations from his Business Advisory Council, the White House Arts Committee, and his Evangelical Advisory Board. This was all punctuated by the resignation of Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who had helped Trump's election campaign succeed in the first place. With impeachment proceedings about to begin (as of December 2019), it remains to be seen who will still stay at Trump's side.

** What's more, state governments around the country started taking down or renaming Confederate monuments en masse, as defense of those monuments (and the complicated history of the American Civil War) are what sparked the Charlottesville demonstrations in the first place.

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