Thank you, Donald J. Trump.
Since 1968, the GOP has used racism to rally their voters. The racism was generally coded. The GOP employed "dog whistle" language which, on the surface, could pass as actual dialogue. And any accusations that the language was racist could be plausibly denied.
Even Ronald Reagan was more subtle than Donald Trump. Yes, Reagan "just happened" to start his campaign at a Fairground in Philadelphia Mississippi that "just happened" to be the site of numerous KKK rallies. But racist Reagan covered his racism with a thin layer of politeness.
But it took Donald Trump to rip off that layer of surface politeness, that layer of surface humanity. to expose the GOP as the official Party of white supremacy. Trump is an open racist. No dog whistle language for him, no nonsense about states rights in an attempt to show that the GOP is allied with unreconstructed southern bigots and CSA fantasists dreaming of their slave republic.
No, Trump simply says he is a racist, and a white supremacist, and FOX enables it.
As to the rest of the GOP politicians, and Trump's Cabinet, the so-called adults in the room, their silence is deafening.
So thank you, Donald J. Trump, for admitting what we all already knew.
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