The hyperbole — using the term “racist” when it was not — makes conservatives angry, and it riles up liberals as well. It does not further communication.

Yes, Trump makes many boorish comments. But I have not heard any “racist” comments. That word was used purposefully to make the accusation incendiary — to weaponize it. It was an insincere use of the term.

Calling someone a racist, in order to silence them and disparage them, is fascist.

Russ wrote, “neither is voting for a president that is all these things”. But people had two choices. For a great many people, Trump was the lesser of two evils. (I personally could not bring myself to vote for either candidate.)

The term “racist” in this instance is unfair, slanderous, and destructive. Yet “credible” news sources such as the NY Times, Guardian, and Washington Post now use the term routinely when referring to Trump’s comments about the “squad”.

And that is what conservatives are referring to when they call those news sources “fake news” — the bias that those sources exhibit in their wording, their headlines, and what they choose to not report on, such as the problems and costs of the tide of illegal immigration. Instead, they focus on whatever supports their preferred narrative.

That’s not credible news.