The purpose of the petty & gratuitous ad hominem attack in #Trump's parenthetical - to signal to "the base" that those whose names don't sound WASPy enough can be labeled "phonies" & their "Hispanic heritage" can be made the premise of criticism - is racist & divisive.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1158950196560171014 …
And that signal is no "dog whistle." More like an air horn.
There's not a lot left to say about #Trump. But among other defects, he's now overtly racist. So what we as Republicans & as Americans do about that in the next 15 months will say a lot about us. @JohnKasich #RunJohnRun