On Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama visited a mosque in Baltimore, Maryland, where he dared to say that:
... we have to understand an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths. And when any religious group is targeted, we all have a responsibility to speak up. And we have to reject a politics that seeks to manipulate prejudice or bias, and targets people because of religion.
… which was completely unacceptable to Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, who sneered:
Always pitting people against each other. Always. Look at today: he gave a speech at a mosque. Oh, you know, basically implying that America is discriminating against Muslims....It's this constant pitting people against each other that I can't stand.
Because rejecting prejudice and bias is just a bridge too far for today’s Republican Party.
And then there was current Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, who opted to go with the old Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim, saying:
I don't have much thought, I think that we can go to lots of places. Right now, I don't know if he's -- maybe he feels comfortable there.
Trump could have just stopped at “I don’t have much thought.”