if people are afraid to speak out because they fear that that base is the kind of, you know, substrata that supports that party, then you've got to at least come out of the closet, so to speak, and admit these are racist sensibilities. anybody who protects them, anybody who defends them, anybody who suggests that they are not worthy of immediate reproach and immediate rebuff is in league with and complicit with these kind of racist, sexist, and anti-american beliefs. this is anti-patriotic to me. >> it's also part of a political strategy. it's clearly orchestrated here that -- let's look at what has occurred in recent days. you've had the threats of mass roundups of illegal immigrants. you heard the president just talk about that just now. the president hosted right-wing social media and he thought that was a great success. you've had the challenge on the citizenship question on the census. so this is -- this doesn't come