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Quote:Even the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, joined the worriers. After Mitt Romney lost in 2012, he set up what he called the Growth and Opportunity Project, to reach those who had not voted Republican—young people, women, Latinos, and African-Americans. But its report, once filed, had no effect on the crowded Republican field of candidates in the 2016 race, who followed Donald Trump’s early lead as he treated women and immigrants as equal-opportunity objects of scorn. Now the public worriers were yearning for the “good old days” when there were such things as moderate Republicans. What happened to them?

The Triumph of the Hard Right by Garry Wills | The New York Review of Books

So Romney lost at least in part because of a lack of minority appeal, which no doubt inspired the likes of Rubio to join the gang of 8 on immigration reform, and now his adversaries are holding this against him and it's supposed to be his big liability..

And meanwhile, Trump has made a political career out of doing the exact opposite.

Quote:Video of a chainsaw-wielding Texas man threatening protesters while shouting the n-word went viral on Friday. While many people were shocked by the video, one of President Donald Trump’s top advisors supported the racism and vigilantism in documented in the video, according to a new report. “President Donald Trump and his allies for years have amplified racist messages on Twitter while simultaneously reaching out to black and Hispanic voters, a dissonant balancing act that’s now rocking the GOP amid nationwide racial-justice protests,” Politico reported Saturday. “The two competing forces collided Saturday on the Twitter feed of Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp, when she boosted a tweet that lauded a man in Texas in a viral video as he yelled the n-word and wielded a chainsaw to chase away anti-racism demonstrators.” Apparently Schlapp thought her post wouldn’t be as offensive if the n-word were edited out.

BUSTED: Key Trump aide caught pushing racist vigilantism on social media – Alternet.org

Quote:“Harris County GOP chair-elect resigns after sharing racist Facebook post juxtaposing an MLK quote with a banana” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

Texas GOP chair-elect resigns after sharing racist Facebook post juxtaposing an MLK quote with a banana – Alternet.org

Quote:President Donald Trump’s former Attorney General Jeff Sessions referred to renowned Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. as “some criminal” in an interview with The New York Times Magazine... Far from “some criminal,” Gates is one of the most prominent Black scholars in the nation. He is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. “He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grant’ in 1981, was named one of Time magazine’s ’25 Most Influential Americans’ in 1997, has created 15 documentaries based on his scholarship and currently hosts the show ‘Finding Your Roots’ on PBS,” The Harvard Crimson reported. Gates was wrongly arrested by Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley in 2009 as he tried to enter his residence after police received a 911 call that men were trying to break into the home. Gates had difficulty opening the door and tried to force it open with the help of his driver. Even though it was his own home, Crowley charged Gates with disorderly conduct. The charges were ultimately dropped, but the incident sparked a nationwide outcry over racial profiling. Obama, then in his first year in office, said the police had acted “stupidly.”

Jeff Sessions refers to a renowned Black scholar as ‘some criminal’ – Alternet.org