He wrote further: "I have known President Trump personally since 1986. The private Trump I have known is funny, charming and embracing. That is not the public Trump of today."
Emphasizing that government workers "take an oath to support the Constitution . . . [which] not only commands of government both racial neutrality and color blindness, it generally prohibits government officials from making distinctions among people on the basis of immutable characteristics."
"So, when the president defies these moral and constitutional norms and and tells women of color to 'Go back,' he raises a terrifying specter. The specter is hatred not for ideas he despises but for the people who embrace those ideas. The specter is also a dog whistle to groups around the country that hatred is back in fashion and is acceptable to articulate publicly."
Napolitano ended his op-ed by saying that hatred "must be rejected loudly in all its forms -- especially when it comes from the president."
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Now this is not such a remarkable statement. It's so self-evidently true. But considering where it came from -- the senior judicial analyst for the FoxNews network -- and that it was a written op-ed published on the network's web site, I think it is very remarkable. And it goes along with some other things that Napolitano has recently said that showed less than full, blind support for Trump that we tend to expect from the "Trump network," as some people call Fox.
Ralph
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