In the middle of an emotionally incontinent reality TV show host getting his hand on the nuclear button, your chief complaint is that in the middle of a few dozen denunciations of the KKK, he once delayed denouncing the KKK for an entire 24 hours before going back to denouncing it again.
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Here is an incompetent thin-skinned ignorant boorish fraudulent omnihypocritical demagogue with no idea how to run a country, whose philosophy of governance basically boils down to “I’m going to win and not lose, details to be filled in later”, and all you can do is repeat, again and again, how he seems popular among weird Internet teenagers who post frog memes. Stop centering criticism of Donald Trump around this sort of stuff, and switch to literally anything else. Stop turning everything into identity politics. Remember that thing where Trump started out as a random joke, and then the media covered him way more than any other candidate because he was so outrageous, and gave him what was essentially free advertising, and then he became President-elect of the United States? Is the lesson you learned from this experience that you need 24-7 coverage of the Ku Klux Klan? Sometimes it’s about minorities, and then we interpret it as racism. Sometimes his random and bizarre terribleness is about white people, and then we laugh it off. Trump is just randomly and bizarrely terrible. If you insist that Trump would have to be racist to say or do whatever awful thing he just said or did, you are giving him too much credit. The ability to bait him into saying basically anything just by telling him people who don’t like him think he shouldn’t. His tendency to avoid perfectly reasonable questions in favor of meandering tangents about Mar-a-Lago. His catchphrases like “haters and losers!” or “Sad!”. I don’t think people appreciate how weird this guy is. I am saying that talk of “entire campaign built around white supremacy” and “the white power candidate” is deliberate and dangerous exaggeration. I’m not saying Trump doesn’t have some racist attitudes and policies. There are not enough organized white supremacists to make up “a lot” of anyone’s support Source: You Are Still Crying Wolf | Slate Star Codex, by Scott Alexander
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