I love how none of the GOP lawmakers, even those speaking anonymously, said anything even remotely resembling “using someone’s identity as the basis for attacking them is wrong and bad.” They’re only backing slowly away from it because it makes them *look* wrong and bad.
@bikepedantic They know they just can't help it. Trump opened the floodgates to open racism and Rs embraced it. Can't stop
@bikepedantic Youngkin has, but he’s also said and done a ton of contradictory stuff that makes his overall message on race very confusing, and best I can tell he’s the best on this
Is there a single remaining GOP lawmaker who would ever say “Racism is bad, full stop” no of course there isn’t.