If Republicans Don't Share Trump's Racism, They Should Probably Let Us Know

It’s now been over 24 hours since President Trump told a group of congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” GOP lawmakers are still silent.

As Republicans and their staffs continue to sort out the calculus of whether it’s politically expedient to issue some sort of statement distancing themselves from the president’s racism, Trump has doubled and tripled down on his attacks. “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country,” he wrote Sunday night, presumably, again, in reference to how Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) have criticized the conditions of border facilities housing migrants. “Such disgraceful behavior,” he added.

On Monday morning, he tweeted that the congresswomen should “apologize” for their “foul language” and their “horrible & disgusting actions.” A few minutes later, he called them racist.

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On Sunday, Maggie Haberman of the New York Times suggested that Trump’s decision to keep running with the attacks was due in part to his party’s refusal to condemn them. “Subtext is no one in his party challenged him today so now he’s trying to make it a straight up/down referendum on this,” she wrote. Trump probably would have kept attacking the congresswomen anyway, but the GOP’s silence certainly isn’t helping. It also shows just how wholly the president’s white nationalism has subsumed the Republican Party. Trump’s values are their values, and Trump values an America that is white. This is no longer an issue of subtext.

It wasn’t that long ago that most Republicans would at least feign disgust whenever Trump would show his true colors.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-racist-tweets-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-ayanna-pressley-rashida-tlaib-858813/