Tiki Torch

I'm thinking this guy was carrying a tiki torch in the Charlottesville rally in 2017.

The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017. Protesters were members of the far-right and included self-identified members of the alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, Blue Lives Matter, and various right-wing militias. The marchers chanted racist and antisemitic slogans, carried semi-automatic rifles, Nazi and neo-Nazi symbols (such as the swastika, Odal rune, Black Sun, and Iron Cross), the Valknut, Confederate battle flags, Deus Vult crosses, flags and other symbols of various past and present anti-Muslim and antisemitic groups. The organizers' stated goals included unifying the American white nationalist movement and opposing the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville's Lee Park.

President Trump's remarks on Charlottesville received substantial negative attention. In his initial statement on the rally, Trump did not denounce the marchers explicitly, instead condemning "hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides." While Trump later stated that he condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists, his first statement and his subsequent defenses of it, in which he also referred to "very fine people on both sides," were seen by critics as implying moral equivalence between the white supremacist marchers and those who protested against them, and were interpreted by some as a sign that he was sympathetic to white supremacy.

 
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