“This is not just an issue of Trump’s racism.”
It’s worse than that.
This is even beyond Trump. If you allow this type of language to set in, if you allow it to become the norm, then there will be other politicians doing this, other activists who will do this, other people marching on streets who think they are justified in the most offensive remarks about other Americans.
Recently I watched the movie Mississippi Burning.
That movie from 1988 contains a KKK meeting with about exactly the same text.
First, ‘I love America’, some minutes later: ‘They hate America’.
I never realized that such scenes were reality, but it is.
Frightening.