Palatable, we agree about violence. But regarding the criticism he's gotten, no one has been saying Trump should have given the counter protesters the moral high ground. They have saying he should have immediately condemned the white supremacists and Nazis without equivocation, not for the violence, but for their hate, their anti-Semitism, and their racism. It took him two days to do that, and even Richard Spencer, an avowed Nazi, says it didn't sound sincere.