George H.W. Bush: “He's a good, decent man. He's a caring fellow. You know, sometimes perhaps his demeanor is rough and gruff, but beneath…”

Bigotry seems emboldened.

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.