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In the days after Donald Trump’s infamous Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden where a comedian called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” Republicans demanded people “get over” their feelings, claiming that it was just a “joke.” Trump walked around claiming he knew nothing about the comedian, as if the controversy was about his personal Rolodex and not what people were saying in his name, at his rallies, with his implied consent.
Here’s what’s particularly funny: The racism on display at that rally didn’t just break through the cacophony of Trump scandals, but it is Republicans who helped amplify it—and made the consequences worse for Trump and the GOP.
