George H.W. Bush: “The world will not look the other way; Iraq's act of aggression will not stand.”

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

Bigotry seems emboldened.