Opinion: Trump's GOP excuses racists, loons and criminals. There's no bottom anymore.

(USA Today) The bar for “behavior Trump-supporting Republicans will excuse” is now set so low it’s subterranean.

This past week, a Haitian nonprofit organization in Springfield, Ohio, filed citizen criminal charges against Donald Trump and JD Vance over their dishonest and dangerous diatribes about the city’s Haitian community.

Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana, responded to that filing by posting this on social media: “Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters … but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their a-- out of our country before January 20th.”

That’s pure, uncut racism. There’s no other way to spin it or excuse it. And yet, it was spun and excused by the Republican Party. Democrats in the House called for censure, but the GOP shut that down.

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