The donald isn't a racist, just the things he says are, anyone can see the difference...
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Republicans supporting Trump, explicitly or tacitly, cannot reasonably claim that they do not know who he is and what he has been doing.
Before running for president, Trump was the king of the “birthers” who questioned President Obama’s place of birth.
He started his campaign by calling Mexican migrants rapists, then spoke approvingly of the inhumane 1950s deportation program known as “Operation Wetback” and delivered a convention speech that described a country overrun by violent foreigners.
House Speaker Ryan called Trump’s attack on a federal judge because of his Mexican heritage “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
Add in the Republican nominee’s proposed Muslim travel ban, his false aspersions on the U.S. Muslim community, his long history of belittling women, his dissemination of an anti-Semitic graphic, and a clear picture is visible.
In more recent days, Trump has attempted to salvage his image with appeals nominally aimed at African Americans. Instead, he only dug himself deeper, depicting African Americans as desperate people living in abject squalor with nothing to lose.
He hired a new campaign chief executive who called the Civil War the “war of Southern Independence” and who ran a website that warned the Obama administration is “importing more hating Muslims.”
Unsurprisingly, polling shows that a majority of Americans believe Trump is biased against women and minorities.
Whether Trump is a genuine bigot or just cynically appealing to bigoted sentiment is not a question I can answer. Certainly not everyone who supports Trump is a bigot.
Trump has attracted the support of assorted bigots once thought ejected from mainstream politics. The candidate has courted this support with plainly visible winks and nods, retweeting their messages and hesitating to disavow them when asked.
When white nationalists were rallying to Trump — Trump could have offered unequivocal condemnation of the bigoted fringe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-cant-pretend-not-to-know-what-fuels-the-trump-campaign/2016/08/26/29289112-6bb2-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html?utm_term=.ac68475a201f&wpi src=nl_draw2&wpmm=1
The donald isn't a racist, just the things he says are, anyone can see the difference...
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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