House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) watches as President Trump speaks at the White House on Jan. 4. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, and held back when it comes to criticizing a chief executive from their own party, President Trump, for his racially divisive statements and public positions. But while Democrats, and decent people everywhere, have a right to demand that Northam step down, Republicans who continue to support a party dominated by Trump can’t be taken seriously on this point. He once argued that a federal judge, Gonzalo Curiel, couldn’t be impartial in a case involving Trump because, as Trump said, “He’s a Mexican. The newfound racial piety of a party that sold its soul to Trump isn’t one of them.

Source: Washington Post February 03, 2019 04:00 UTC