Trump’s racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and white nationalism are not only attacks against people of color, women, Muslims, and immigrants to America, but against all of us regardless of our color, national origin, and religious faith.

His so-called “pro-Israel” support is a cynical effort to sanitize his hatred while appealing to his extremist evangelical Christian base. In truth, President Trump, Senator Graham, and others who picked up his hateful gauntlet do Jews, the people and State of Israel a terrible disservice by identifying us as a protected minority while they attack everyone else as the hated “other.”

Martin Niemoller, the revered German Lutheran pastor and theologian (1892–1984), famously warned against the cynicism and hate of the Nazis when he said:

“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.”

Yesterday I quoted the unknown author who said: “What you permit, you promote. What you allow, you encourage. What you condone, you own.”

Thankfully, 4 Republicans voted with the Democratic party last evening to condemn in the House of Representatives Trump’s racist tweets.

History will judge harshly as cowards and moral sycophants the rest of the Republican party that refuses to call this President what he is – a purveyor of hate and racism.