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Trump-led GOP grows increasingly tolerant of racially divisive politics

Rep. Mia Love (R-UT), in a concession speech after losing her reelection, gave a scathing rebuke to the GOP, saying “Republicans never take minority communities into their home and citizens into their homes and into their hearts.” Credit: Evan Cobb/Daily Herald, AP

 Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a racially polarizing election here Tuesday night after never fully apologizing for comments in which she suggested she would be willing to sit in the front row at a public hanging.

Then on Wednesday, Senate Republicans moved to confirm a judicial nominee who, as an attorney, defended a North Carolina voter identification law deemed unconstitutional by a federal appeals court because it sought to “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

The back-to-back developments this week offer a stark illustration of the state of the Republican Party and racial politics.

View the complete November 28 article by Matt Viser and Michael Scherer on The Washington Post website here.

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