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President Trump gave a perfect Fourth of July weekend speech at Mount Rushmore. Why was it perfect? Because all the divisiveness and racism were out in the open. And, thanks to the lack of social distancing and the little airtime given to the virus, so were his anti-science and anti-competence failures around containing Covid 19. What better weekend could there be than this, with stone-faced former presidents looking down, for Americans to be given a clear and simple choice about the future direction of the country? You want Mount Rushmore, or Mount RushLimbaugh? “President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.” WaPo: Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him. Let’s be clear about one thing. Trumpian Republicans are NOT being unnerved by Trump’s amplification of racism. They’re being unnerved by the fact that Trump’s amplification of racism is resulting in terrible poll numbers. Former Republican Ohio governor John Kasich: “They coddled this guy the whole time and now it’s like some rats are jumping off of the sinking ship. It’s just a little late. It’s left this nation with a crescendo of hate not only between politicians but between citizens … It started with Charlottesville and people remained silent then, and we find ourselves in this position now … I’m glad to see some of these Republicans moving the other way but it reminds me of Vichy France where they said, ‘Well, I never had anything to do with that.'” The Rushmore speech makes saying, “I had nothing to do with that” an impossibility. Every politician, indeed every American, now has to to pick a side.