The wound that may longest outlive President Trump and his enablers will be the racial and ethnic fear and hatred they so cynically stoked and exploited. Even Trump cannot believe that the greatest problem facing America today is Mexicans or Hondurans sneaking across the border. Trump Republicans see an opportunity of another kind. His dependence on this issue guarantees that Trump will not accept the legislative solutions to actually begin to solve the immigration problem. Last week, Trump finally found a human rights cause he could embrace: on behalf of white farmers in formerly apartheid South Africa.

Source: Washington Post August 26, 2018 23:26 UTC