I think Donald Trump, in his rhetoric and in the images he tweets out, is making very clear that he is establishing himself as the candidate of racists. I think it goes beyond the bloc of supporters. So why should Trump be more responsible for the presence of these people in his party than any other candidate? Playing devil’s advocate a bit here: both Democrats and Republicans throughout their history have often relied on bigots and racists in their voting blocs. Whether it was an accident or on purpose, they’re both equally bad in my mind. But he’s a charming man who’s willing to court and take advantage of white-supremacist voters, either blatantly, with multiple tweets from white-supremacist sources and #AmericaFirst, or so carelessly that it makes me afraid that he would give those hateful groups so much space and leeway to operate.

And he leans into it by saying the reason that you think Donald Trump is anti-Semitic is because you’ve never met him. But I will say, there’s obviously a bias. I’ve never met any of them, so I don’t know what they’re like in person. I think he’s seeing a father-in-law that he’d better keep his mouth shut and support. What do you think Kushner sees in that test? Let’s work under the hypothesis that Trump is a Rorschach test and not anti-Semitic. and publicity for the campaign that he can’t make a human argument befitting what I would hope to be a man of his intelligence.

It also makes me sad that he lives in a bubble of P.R. It makes me wonder if he even reads his paper, first.

I even say in my article that I don’t think Donald Trump is an anti-Semite.

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