GOP Is All In With Trump's Racism

Let's face it, Trump is a caricature of the archetypical batshit crazy, egomaniacal, Fox News addled, racist uncle that we all have to put up with over Thanksgiving and whose clear onset of dementia has become impossible to ignore. Most of the time he is rambling nonsensically, interspersing his twaddle with hateful, insulting and often racist diatribes. There is no arguing with him, no chance for rational conversation. So you just placate him by interjecting "yea", "umm", and "I see" into his unintelligible logorrhea, just like the reporters for the NY Times and now the Wall Street Journal did.

But it's not news that Trump is a xenophobic racist. He has made that clear from his days of housing discrimination in the 1970s to birtherism to his enthusiasm for his deportation force. What is shocking but no longer surprising is the fact that virtually the entire Republican party, its establishment, and the conservative punditocracy apparently have nothing they are willing to say or do to rebut Trump's "shithole" comments. For most, any criticism was largely muted, such as Paul Ryan's statement that the comment was "unfortunate". The party is apparently all in on Trump's racism in order to save themselves electorally in 2018.

To show just how deeply embedded Trump's racism is within the party, the White House political crew believes that his comment will "resonate" with the base in the same way his attacks on NFL players did. Trump himself thought that the comment would be positive for him.

Hillary Clinton's depiction of Trump supporters as a "basket of deplorables" may not have been smart politics, but can anyone now deny that it was the truth. The "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic" 30% of the country that will support Trump to the bitter end will have no problem with his comments. And the Republican party will continue to cater to that 30%, essentially saying and doing nothing to restrain Trump or worse, like Steve King, actually encouraging him by telling him to "hang in there".

Unlike Thanksgiving, we have to put with the demented, racist Trump for four years, not just four days. And while we will focus on his racist, hateful words, we should not lose sight of the horrendous policies being enacted by his administration both domestically and internationally. But more importantly, especially for 2018, we must endlessly point out that this racist fool is being enabled by the Republican party.