(CNN) President Donald Trump's combative defense of far-right protesters packs a nausea-inducing punch when you listen to it in Europe -- in territories that were occupied and ruled by a fascist regime. Territories that were liberated only when free people -- including Americans -- fought the Nazis forcefully and violently. The President, who grudgingly condemned US neo-Nazi groups Monday, promptly tore up the script written for him by political staff and decided to double down on his defense of protesters Tuesday night, intensifying his effort to draw a moral equivalency between racists and the people who fight them. I watched it all from my apartment in Amsterdam, just a few blocks from one of the most poignant monuments to the horrors of Nazi rule: the house where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis. As I write I can hear the church bells of the nearby Westertoren, a sound Anne described in her diary as comforting.Frida Ghitis: President should visit European sites that honor the victims of fascismTrump's refusal to condemn the far right may be due to ignorance, she says
If ignorance really is the reason, he and the country would benefit from a _ history lesson.