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![Trump brings bigots out of hiding
WASHINGTON Once you notice it, you can't unsee it."
A
about a Trump rally near Phoenix where
couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
The Twitterverse, and social media a young man shouted "mother-f—.
"Let's not mince words, Donald generally, can be dark places, as can the ing tacos — go back to Mexico" at two Trump is a bigot and a racist." comments section of Washington Post
Latino protesters — and a 70-year-old
I cited a long list of incidents in which articles, and my email inbox. This is
retiree sucker-punched a demonstrator.
he targeted women, Latinos, African-
the seventh presidential campaign I've
And where is the condemnation of
Americans, Muslims, Asians and the covered in some form over 25 years, and this behavior? At the Las Vegas debate, disabled. Here's what I heard back from harsh criticism comes with the terri-
Trump's rivals all but ignored the front-
Trump's defenders:
tory. But the Trump backers venom is runner, who previously said of a black
"Let's not mince
without precedent. His supporters surely protestor at his event: "Maybe he should
words," somebody
aren't all bigots — but he is bringing the have been roughed up." Trump is burn-
tweeted under the name
bigoted in from the cold.
ing down the Republican house, and the
Helios Megistos. "Mil-
There is an obvious truth to what
American house, yet his rivals are on a
bank is an anti-white
white nationalist publisher Jared Tay-
march of the narcissists.
parasite and a bigoted
lor told The New Yorker this summer:
If Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb
kike supremacist."
Trump's "support comes from people
Bush, John Kasich and other sensible
"[Trump] may well
who are more like me than he might like
candidates were to unite behind any one
be a bigot and a racist,"
to admit."
of them, that person could likely beat
DANA
one Michael Banfield
I write this not out of any hope of
Trump, and Ted Cruz. Instead, enabled
MILBANK
wrote me via email. "But changing the minds of Trump back-
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