Commentary: Trump is using his racism to regain power. Silence will let him ride bigotry to another term

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump is turning up his bigotry because it works.
58% : A five-part series of editorials making the case against Trump that was supposed to be published with the Harris endorsement was also spiked.
58% : That figure, by the way, includes Trump himself -- his mother was an immigrant from Scotland -- his first wife and his current wife and four of his five children from three marriages.
55% : Despite it all, Trump is polling within a few points of Harris, who, as a former senator, state attorney general and prosecutor, has spent her career upholding American ideals and is exceptionally qualified to lead.
47% : His former chief of staff, John Kelly, revealed that while in office, Trump repeatedly made comments praising Adolf Hitler, such as, "You know, Hitler did some good things, too."
47% : Trump launched his political career by stoking the embers of white racial resentment.
45% : As a member of The Times' editorial board, which has repeatedly and fearlessly made the case that Trump is uniquely dishonest and dangerous to American democracy, it especially stings to see The Times now among those institutions that have chosen the cowardly path of silence.
39% : I fear deeply for our country if Trump succeeds in fanning the flames of racial resentment and hatred to regain power.
37% : He has told four American congresswomen of color to "go back" to their countries, and according to recent reporting in the Atlantic, complained in an Oval Office meeting about fulfilling his promise to help pay for the funeral of murdered U.S. Army Private Vanessa Guillén, saying "it doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f -- Mexican!"Trump has a decades-long record of racism and discrimination, and of belittling and demeaning non-white people as dumb, inferior and not real Americans.
19% : "In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Trump is treading dangerously familiar ground, spewing a torrent of racist and xenophobic insults, threats and lies as he escalates his attacks on immigrants and non-white Americans.
7% : Kelly recently warned that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and would rule like a dictator.

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