How to isolate and disarm these racist elements is a question that confronts responsible conservatives as well as moderates and progressives. Instead of pretending that von Brunn is a "leftist" or dog-whistling to the far right, as figures like Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter habitually do, Republicans, Democrats and independents ought to find common ground, as the president would say -- and condemn racialism and violence, without exception or excuse.
Uh, Joe? The problem with that is that the Right Wing base of the GOP, the 20% Bush dead-enders are racialist. And some of them are violent. There is no reasoning with them.
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