On Race and More, Donald Trump Is a Perfect Fit for the GOP
"The GOP has been exploiting race by nurturing racism for at least 50 years, since LBJ was said to have prophetically lamented that the Democratic Party would lose the South for a generation as its punishment for passing civil rights legislation. And for the past 15 years — since the 9/11 attacks — the GOP has similarly contributed to and profited from a simmering xenophobia in the United States. Reasonable discussions on immigration policy, as a result, are unthinkable within the party. Trump and his resume of hatred is more of the same. It is just that Trump doesn’t bother with nuance, filters or, in what has become a cliché, the “dog whistles” of coded communication employed by Republicans."
