This was the natural endgame to which they were consigning us. This was the inevitable result of that dreadful bargain.

Donald Trump is the reductio ad absurdum of EVERYTHING the Republican party stands for, and I hope that no one ever forgets that.

Otherwise, the GOP would have collapsed after having embraced racism.

Everyone objects to sweeping statements about 'the South' but that is the Petri dish in which this horrible disease festers and grows.

So you might as well say that the GOP just noticed something awful that they could latch on to. The strategy was to exploit the evil that was already there.

to the minority of Americans who hold racist, misogynistic and xenophobic veiws.

We are the party of the future, not the past, and we need to remind Americans of that.

All one has to do is look at the legislation the republicans have enacted over the past several years. The GOP and their Supreme Court toadies gutted the Voting Rights Act. They are the ones who have been purging minorities from voter rolls, and gerrymandering their votes into oblivion. It is republican governors, secretaries of state, and state legislatures who have been shortening early voting or eliminating it altogether, reducing the numbers of polling places in minority-dominated areas, and otherwise making it difficult for minorities to vote. They are the ones hacking away and women's rights throughout the country, as well. The only difference between them and the clowns with the tiki torches is that they are actually in public office and enacting the very sorts of things the racist marchers stand for.

No truer words

Including the origins under Nixon of "war on drugs" and why, and what Blow says about "soft white supremacy."
Very thoughtful.

think he did the right thing.

Been saying it and saying it.