Donald Trump is a vile demagogue whose racism and xenophobia have made the United States a dramatically more dangerous and threatening place. This is the uncomfortable reality that most Republicans would prefer not to discuss. On the Sunday morning after 22 men, women, and children in El Paso were killed by a white man who targeted Latinos and whose “manifesto” echoed Trump's anti-immigrant hate speech, CNN's Jake Tapper listed Republicans who had declined to to go on his State of the Union program to discuss the mass shooting in Texas—and another that killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio. CNN would later report that 49 of 50 Republican lawmakers declined to appear on air to discuss the shootings.
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