Trump is no different from any other Republican.

[Yavin4]

He's just more up front about it. Doesn't dog whistle his true beliefs, but lays them out bare. The Republican party is the party of White Supremacy. Always has been. Always will be.

The mistake that we're making is to believe otherwise.

[David__77]

1. I disagree.

And, in fact, I think that uniting with as many Republicans as possible against white supremacy is called for.

I would like to see a joint statement of McConnell, Schumer, Ryan, and Pelosi condemning racism and white supremacist organizations.

[Moostache]

2. Correction....Republicans are no different than Trump...

Don't let that party off the hook....THEY own him, not the other way around...

Come 2018, if there are not ads running with Trump's own words narrating video of those Nazi's with their torches and chants overdubbed on the ad, then Democrats fail to understand the way to advertise effectively.

Mystery Candidate Y...in LOCK STEP with President Trump's radical racial agenda...TOO EXTREME for America, TOO EXTREME for <insert jurisdiction here>

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[Solly Mack]

3. The GOP has a history of using racism to get votes and support.

That's a fact.

They don't get to pretend it suddenly became a problem with Trump.

I'm not going to allow them to pretend otherwise now.

In recent memory - Throughout Obama's presidency, we all saw the GOP use of racism in action.

Why pretend that didn't happen?

[uponit7771]

5. +1, "...They don't get to pretend it suddenly became a problem with Trump. ..."

[Solly Mack]

6. There's a tactic known as allowing your foe a way out so as to allow them

to come to your side without losing too much face.

But giving the GOP the wiggle room for an out by denouncing in broad terms what is so easy to denounce in the general (unless you're Trump) - McConnell's "no good neo-nazis" for example - doesn't address what the GOP really needs to do. Denounce Trump by name and denounce all forms of bigotry, period - and then stop their own appeals to race (sexism/homophobia) for votes and support.

Because unless they do admit to their bigoted tactics and then stop them, their words are hollow.

Their words become the easy way out. All meaningless talk without action.

Same is true for all bigots.