Calling Trump a 'Racist' -- Now a 2020 Dem Talking Point?

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Real Clear Politics

A candidate must support some sort of universal health care. He or she needs a plan for gun control -- banning so-called assault weapons and demanding expanded background checks are the current preferred starting points. An aspiring president also has to have a plan for climate change (Green New Deal or equivalent).

 

And something else may be required to become the party’s standard-bearer: The candidate who would take on President Trump in the general election must call him a racist during the primary.

“The Dems new weapon is actually their old weapon, one which they never cease to use when they are down, or run out of facts, RACISM!” Trump tweeted aboard Air Force One after visiting with survivors of the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.

Whether his analysis of the candidates’ motive is correct, he is right that this kind of condemnation is now commonplace. Of all the candidates who appeared on the last primary debate stage, each now labels the president a racist or accuses him of promoting bigotry to advance his own political agenda.

 

If the specifics are new, the sentiments are not.