"In the era of Donald Trump, a major plank of the modern Republican Party platform is outright racism. Whether it’s the leader of the free world telling four congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” a U.S. senator saying he wasn’t afraid of the January 6 rioters but would have been worried if they were Black Lives Matter protesters, a U.S. congresswoman speaking at event put on by a white nationalist, the complete and total hysteria over the idea of children being taught about systemic racism, or a prime-time conservative host’s regular white-power hour, this hateful little ecosystem just loves to appeal to the lowest common denominator by demonizing anyone who isn’t white. But when their actions actually have consequences? And it turns out their hate speech matters? And people have the audacity to suggest they’re part of the problem? Well, they really get their noses out of joint." -- Bess Levin in Vanity Fair on the telling, furious reaction of Republicans to being rightfully linked with the racist "Great Replacement Theory." We'd argue that the racism goes farther back in Republican DNA than Trump (see Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and St. Ronnie of Hollywood's speech in Neshoba County, MS, in 1980 for starters). But points well taken.
