Michael Gerson argues in a column in today’s Washington Post that a Trump victory in the primaries would be a disaster, because it would turn the GOP from the party of Lincoln into a party that rejects racial and religious inclusiveness.
Say what?
Gerson is either living on the planet Zoltan or in a time machine that is stuck in the early 1960’s. You can reasonably argue that the GOP leadership has not been racist (George W. Bush, to name one, clearly wasn’t), but it is indisputable that the GOP has relied heavily on a core of racist voters for its electoral successes since Nixon’s campaign in 1968. Trump is simply substituting plain language for code.
If Gerson really wants the GOP to be the party of Lincoln, he has to be willing to forego all of its electoral victories in the Deep South. I, for one, am not holding my breath.