When you stand in a forest, you see trees, but you have no idea of the immensity of the forest...Such is the current situation for the GOP when they face Trump's racism.
Dana Milbank in WaPo
So Trump’s enablers are unnerved by his overt racism — not because it’s despicable on its face but because they fear losing power. And the enablers fret, but in private.
Their silence isn’t just enabling Trump; it’s also enabling white supremacy to hijack a major American political party.
The others — Tillis, Perdue, Cornyn, Ernst, Gardner, McSally and Daines — responded as Republicans generally do when asked about Trump’s racism: with crickets.
They think their silence protects them. But it does something else: It turns them into the handmaidens of white supremacy.