I don\u2019t like many of the things Trump said. \u00a0More things than I can count. \u00a0I was going to list all of the offensive statements\u00a0that I reject, but\u00a0then I realized this isn\u2019t my full time job and I don\u2019t have the time. \u00a0So suffice to say, I found many things he said offensive at best. \u00a0Nonetheless, for all of the things he said that were offensive to women, immigrants, minorities, and other groups, the worst that his critics have been able to say about him is the exact same thing they\u2019ve said about almost every other non-liberal politician for the last 35 years.<\/p>\n
Since at least Reagan, and possibly before, any and all Republicans have been called hate mongers, bigots, racists, sexists, homophobes, warmongers and morons. \u00a0Romney and McCain tried to reach across the moderate aisle and Trump ended up with more black votes than either of them. \u00a0They were still just racists and sexists in the party of hate. \u00a0Bush tried to be the compassionate conservative and we had images of James Byrd, with the usual charges of racism and sexism and every other ism under the sun. \u00a0When the GOP swept Congress it was waved off as The Angry White Male, and dismissed as a roll back to \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 racism, sexism, bigotry and hate. \u00a0And so it\u2019s been for as long as I\u2019ve followed politics.<\/p>\n