Like a crime boss who enjoys publicity a bit too much, Trump is making it increasingly difficult for the dons of the Republican Party to keep their ugliest rhetoric (and the unsavory constituencies that this rhetoric mobilizes) out of the national spotlight.
Howie Carr referred to transitional assistance recipients
yesterday as “leeches”, the same word used in the past to describe the Irish
and Latinos. Bigoted rhetoric doesn’t change, just the targets.
