A panel on MSNBC hammered Republicans and the mainstream media for downplaying Donald Trump's white purity campaign.
Host Joy Reid on Monday, explained that it continues to be a discussion about non-white people damaging the blood of white purity.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has focused a lot on blood purity, Reid explained. He's one of several dictators that Trump proclaims he loves.
She asked national security expert and conservative Republican Tom Nichols why the GOP refuses to see the racism when it's so clearly displayed. He explained it simply: It isn't that they refuse to see it, it's that they refuse to admit it.
"They know exactly what's happening," said Nichols. "The idea that they are in denial, you know, the clip you showed like Lindsey Graham, they're not — it's not that they can't see it. It's that they prefer to stay in power. They want to win. They are basically now in the minority-rule party and they're determined to stay there. So, they have to explain it away."
He said that the first time he heard Trump use the word "vermin" he knew that there was no way Trump came up with that word because his vocabulary is so limited.
"That's even scarier because it says the people around him are not just enabling him, they are actively arming him with words like this," Nichols continued. "They are actively working on these plans. It's not like he's saying things and they're saying, 'Well, boy, we're really — you know, I'm sorry the boss wants to go in that direction, but I guess I have to write that speech now."'
It's the other way around, he said. They know what he wants and they're working to make him better at it after learning their lessons in 2020.
Trump biographer David Cay Johnston criticized the media for downplaying it or ignoring it as if it isn't that big of a deal because white nationalists are a small fraction of the population. Still, he said, there is a significant segment of the country that wants that kind of white nationalism that Trump is advocating with his blood purity campaign.
"I have literally had people call me on the phone and tell me what we need to do is bring back slavery," Johnston said as the other panelists gasped. "And this is not being covered the way I think it should be, to really lay this bare. And related to that are all of the jell-o-spined Republicans who will not stand up to this man."
The panel then recalled when Trump's father, Fred Trump Sr. was arrested at a Klan rally, which went largely ignored by the media at the time.
See the full discussion in the video below or at the link here.