Race-Baiting Has Infested the GOP
By Timothy L. O'Brien
June 25, 2018, 7:30 AM EDT
... The president has had decades to hone his worldview and has never fully distanced himself from white supremacists — and his actions and words have made it easier for others in the U.S. to wear their bigotry and racism on their sleeves. None of that was likely to have been lost on Huckabee before he sat down on Saturday to tweet about the gang members he fancied running a campaign for the Democrats. And it’s hard to believe that he didn’t anticipate the multiple ways in which his tweet would resonate with his daughter’s boss.
Huckabee is only the latest person in the Trump orbit to throw in with the president’s value system, of course. The entire Republican Party has refashioned itself in his image. And Trump’s presidency has torn the cover off of many of the tales Americans have been telling themselves about progress around racial tolerance and pluralism over the last several decades. The only good that will come of that is if it further steels most citizens and voters from throwing in with Trump’s values as readily as Huckabee and the GOP.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-25/huckabee-tweet-shows-trump-s-race-baiting-has-infested-the-gop
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