In a Friday essay on his campaign website, U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney wrote that individuals disqualify themselves from being considered “good people” if they knowingly march under a Nazi banner.
The essay came shortly before this weekend’s one-year anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., during which a woman was killed and several people were injured in a vehicular attack, and which prompted the widely-criticized comment by President Donald Trump that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the white nationalist rally and its counter-protests.
Romney’s essay reiterated his opposition to Trump’s comment, which the former Massachusetts governor posted on twitter after last year’s rally.