Welcome to the summer of whiplash

(CNN)1945 called. It wants to know what the heck is going on. We have a US President who is rabidly anti an anti-fascist group. A statue of Winston Churchill was defaced in England. That's historical whiplash if ever there was. President Donald Trump, who has been demonizing protesters seeking racial justice and tweeting about rooting out Antifa, suggested without any evidence that an elderly man knocked down by police was a provocateur who was trying to bait the cops. He's twisting World War II-era ideas about fascism and democracy into knots, while in England they're reexamining the legacy of Churchill's imperialist history and his racist and anti-Semitic statements. In 2020, that's just a...