"It is the natural outgrowth of the Republican Party's longstanding flirtation with bigotry, its turn away from the civil rights movement, its electoral "Southern strategy," which relied on racism and bigotry to win national elections, its abandonment of affirmative action, its widespread skepticism and disdain for immigrants and immigration. Decades of the GOP walking the line of racist discourse have given Trump permission to espouse and promote outright bigotry."
This today from an editorial in The Detroit Free Press which castigated Donald Trump for his call to ban Muslims from entering America. Later they lament Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for being one of umpteen republican governors to refuse to welcome the women and children refugees from Syria, and calls out both of them for giving voice to hatred. It ends with a plea for us to all stand together as Americans.
What the Free Press doesn't say, though, is that they endorsed Rick Snyder for our governor, not just once, but twice, knowing full well that everything in this post's lead paragraph is true. The republican party has been run by its radical faction since Reagan's two terms and expecting Snyder to behave any differently than he has in light of the republican party's history since the 1960s is either willful ignorance or the height of stupidy. In its endorsements of Snyder, the Free Press is every bit as guilty as Trump and Snyder in legitimizing hatred.
So forgive me if I don't stand with the Free Press--we are reaping what they sowed with their lack of courage in calling out the republican party for its decades old bigotry until today in the interest of some misplaced sense of fairness toward the two parties. Bigotry is bigotry, and no, both parties do not partake in it.
Peace,
emaycee
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