No, it isn’t the legislative history, nor the scandals real and imagined, it is actually far worse.
Since inauguration we have seen a very ugly chain of statements from Republicans.
Ron Johnson said that he wasn’t frightened by the peaceful Trump protestors on Jan. 6, but would have been if they were black protestors supporting Biden.
Michigan Senate Republican Majority Leader Mike Shirkey after testing positive for COVID said: "I like to tell this story: The Chinese Flu Army, you know, they sent in one of their best soldiers, his name was Rona.”
U.S. Rep Chip Roy, R-TX, criticized a hearing intended to address discrimination against Asian Americans as an attack on free speech, as he used the forum to denounce the Chinese government over the coronavirus pandemic.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., said that he opposed “white racism,” hours after speaking at a far-right conference whose organizer spoke approvingly of the Capitol insurrection while delivering a white-nationalist speech.
What in the past would have been completely unacceptable among ALL politicians, from both sides of the aisle is now becoming common-place, and the speakers not only are not embarrassed by having made those comments, but they use them as fund raising tools.
Mr. Trump used dog whistle comments, overtly racist comments and “you’re just as bad” comments so frequently that the public and the press become anaesthetized by them. Worse, those comments excited a segment of our population. They were stoked by those comments to support Mr. Trump, contribute to his campaign and vote for him.
The lesson has been well learned. Other Republican politicians now have been liberated from the moral and social bindings of our culture and been given sanction to utter these words.
It will take a very long time, perhaps a generation to reverse this awful accomplishment.
This bile, this hate, this flag of exclusion wrapped around the bodies of the self-righteous, power-hungry politicians is the true cancer of the Trump Legacy.