“Somehow, someway, in the hours between Donald Trump issuing an utterly clear statement calling for a ban on all Muslim immigration to the United States on Monday and the whirlwind of recriminations, denouncements and rebukes made Tuesday, elected officials and public figures in both parties decided that Trump had finally gone too far.
On Tuesday, the umbrage level was high. The outrage was bipartisan and vast. People fired off all manner of constitutional references and riffs. And it seemed that much of the loudest, most eloquent and, as my colleague Amber Philips put it, elegant condemnations came from officialdom on the right. It was, to say the least, an interesting turn of events in a race in which Trump has repeatedly and expertly toyed with the tools and techniques of fascism, overt racism and xenophobia.” [WAPOST]
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