Most Republicans won’t entertain the notion that Trump is a racist. They are only able to process offense at the charge itself. jonathanchait writes
Rep. Doug Collins Photo: C-SPAN President Trump’s racist outburst has placed his party in an excruciating position. Some have ignored the remarks, and a handful have defended them on the absurd grounds that identifying nonwhite lawmakers as foreigners who are not entitled to criticism of the president is somehow race-neutral. But as the controversy has unspooled, the predominant impulse within Republican Party ranks is to locate a defensive position by identifying grievances of their own.
Rubio’s need to summon this fantasy sequence, in which the events followed the exact opposite of reality, fulfilled a deeper need to balance out the president’s very real offenses with equal ones on the opposing side. If no such offense existed, it had to be imagined. The Wall Street Journal devotes an editorial to this episode. This minor point of parliamentary order has become a sacred principle. “In her zeal to play to the media chorus that Mr. Trump is a ‘racist,’ Mrs. Pelosi violates her own House rules on appropriate speech,” the Journal complains. “All of which proves again that Donald Trump, for all of his excesses, has no monopoly on violating political norms.
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