Trump's openly racist attacks against the federal judge hearing the case against his alleged "University" continue to demonstrate just how debased the rest of the Republican Party has become. On Monday we learned that Donald Trump held a conference call with his surrogates in which he demanded those surrogates attack questioners of his racist remarks, telling them that the people questioning him "are the racists. I would go at 'em."
And so today we are treated to the sight of his Republican supporters washing up on our television screens like so many dead crabs.
"Speaker Ryan is wrong and Speaker Ryan has apparently switched positions and is supporting identity politics, which is racist," Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord, a member of the Reagan administration, said on CNN Tuesday when asked about Ryan's concerns.
That's right! Paul Ryan is the real racist here, for not agreeing that United States District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel is "a Mexican!" Good work, Jeffrey Lord, rest assured you in no way look like a shameless, deeply stupid sellout.
And you know who else is a huge racist? The black president of the United States!
"You can easily argue that the president of the United States is a racist with his policies and his rhetoric," [Rep. Lee Zeldin] told CNN on Tuesday as he was grilled about Trump's accusations that U.S. District Court Gonzalo Curiel [...]
Wow—it's like looking into a snow globe full of stupidity and feces. Trump says a very stupid thing, and his team of little Republican genuflectors scurry onto the airwaves to each repeat that very stupid thing. We’re in Republican Pamplona, and it's the Running of the Bullshit.
All right, so at the very least here we've got a fine litmus test for who Donald Trump's very stupidest surrogates are. Lee Zeldin has to take home the prize for calling Barack Obama the real racist here, but the overall shame and debasement contest is still neck-and-neck. And will be for some time, because there's apparently no limit to how far Trump-supporting Republicans will stick those necks out for this man who quite clearly doesn't give a flying damn about the rest of their stupid loser party.