If you have to be pulled kicking and screaming to the podium and forced to utter words, words that are not your own, merely uttering them does not absolve you.  Trumps race baiting and history of racist behavior does not simply disappear because he said some words, words that were not his.  

Trump's defenders like Mark Davis wish our collective memories were like an etch-a-sketch, and do-overs simply replaced what was there before.  Unfortunately for them and fortunately for humanity, we can remember the wrongs of yesterday so that we can aim to prevent them from recurring tomorrow.  In this case, the President of the United States tacitly endorsed white supremacist and Nazis marching in the streets- in 2017.  By defending Trump, Mark Davis, and others like him, are likewise condoning the vile racists that took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.  

History will not be kind to these individuals which is fitting as their treasonous idols fall.