‘He’s a race-baiting bigot’
Excerpts from a column in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof:
Instead of again inflicting on you my views of the danger of Donald Trump, let me share what some influential conservatives said about him during the campaign: (Some have since tempered their public sentiments.)
“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham.
“We saw and looked at true hate in the eyes last year in Charleston. I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the KKK. That is not a part of our party.” — Nikki Haley, Republican governor of South Carolina.
“A moral degenerate.” — Peter Wehner, evangelical Christian commentator who served in past three Republican administrations. “Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped,” — Bobby Jindal, former Republican governor of Louisiana.
“To support Trump is to support a bigot. It’s really that simple.” — Stuart Stevens, chief strategist to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign
“The GOP, in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism. This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American . . . Never Trump.” — Henry M. Paulson Jr., Treasury secretary under George W. Bush
“A man utterly unfit for the position by temperament, values and policy preferences . . . whose personal record of chicanery and wild rhetoric of bigotry, misogyny and misplaced belligerence are without parallel in the modern history of either major party.” — Eliot A. Cohen, senior State Department official under George W. Bush.
“God bless this man” — Daily Stormer, white supremacist website.