Republican leadership will not care about the level of bigotry in any legislature either. They are not signing the final document and they will leverage power for their croines. Paul "No Clue" Ryan will gavel the bigots in and enjoy the majority the silence created in January 2017.
Count the dollars to the RNC during this period and understand why this continues.
Count the dollars to the RNC during this period and understand why this continues.
By Friederdorf
...Enter Donald Trump. (click here) His transgressions are many. Ryan himself declared Trump’s comments about a Mexican American judge “the textbook definition of racism.”
Now let’s return to Trump’s latest egregious affront against an ethnic minority: trying to discredit the parents of a fallen soldier by prejudging them as a chauvinist husband and a cowed wife who wasn’t allowed to speak; ignorantly spreading that stereotype; and offering no retraction even after knowing it to be false.
If that were the end of the story, it would be bad enough for Paul Ryan. He would be relearning this about himself: that electing a Republican is more important to him than opposing naked racism and prejudice. Few partisans want to think that about themselves.
Yet there’s more than the personal cost of knowing it about himself.
The father of a fallen soldier intends to keep reminding Paul Ryan about this, to keep insisting that it is a moral failure, until Ryan changes his mind. As Josh Barro put it, the Mexican American jurist, Gonzalo Curiel, “is a sitting judge presiding over a Trump case, so he couldn't camp out on TV and keep the story alive. Khizr Khan can.”
That will have consequences.
Before, Republicans could always maintain, with at least some veneer of plausibility, that they would of course repudiate a politician who crossed a certain line.
With Donald Trump as their standard-bearer, that line has been shown to encompass a candidate who, feeling attacked by the father of a fallen soldier, finds that his first instinct is to lash out at the man’s grieving wife, the fallen soldier’s mother, impugning both with ignorant, derogatory speculation rooted in prejudice....
