Jonathan Capehart:
I'm not surprised by that at all.
It takes me back to the 2016 campaign, when there were a lot of stories that quoted people who went to his rallies: Why do you like Donald Trump? He says what we're all thinking. He says what I can't say.
And left me to wonder, well, what can't you say? He's called Mexicans rapists. He's called for a Muslim ban. This was during his campaign. He's been — he was president for four years. So we know what his thinking is. And in these rallies where he talks about immigrants, he's talking about poisoning the blood of our country, and he spells out they're coming from Africa, they're coming from Asia, they're coming from South America.
What he doesn't say is, they're coming from Europe. For him, immigrants are people who come from anywhere that's basically Black or brown. And let's not forget what he said when he was president of the United States, how he derided immigrants from country from — quote, unquote — "S-hole countries."
So we know what his viewpoint is. And so the fact that he is using this — the — I was about to say this Hitleresque language, we should take that very seriously. He's saying it over and over and over again. And it is terrible for political discourse. It is terrible for a country that is built by immigrants and enslaved labor.
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