‘> Sometimes the dog whistle of racism is an air horn. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the paper. Late last week, trump’s rants about immigrants polluting the country with “bad genes” were paraphrased by The New York Times as a “long-held fascination with genes and genetics.”

In the article referenced above, the Times was very clearly trying to address the eugenics behind trump’s rhetoric, but it failed. The reporter neglected to use the word “racist” or “racism” at any point. This tiptoeing approach also hides the larger threat of what it means for a national leader to embrace this language, and the danger to a country in which he remains a leading candidate for the presidency. In the news cycle that followed, only Politico seemed to reflect the full measure of trump’s clear descent into apocalyptic race-baiting in its headline “We watched 20 trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.”…’ ( Andrea Pitzervia Trapped in a Company Town )