The Missus was answering questions on the White House Lawn today when a White House reporter (Andrew Feinberg) asked Kellyanne about the president’s racist tweets: "...which countries President Donald Trump was referring to when he suggested Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar—all U.S. citizens—should “go back” to where they came from?".
Instead of answering that question, Conway asked him, “What’s your ethnicity?”
Nicole Wallace, who worked for Press Office the Bush 45 White House, said "I'm fairly confident I would have been fired on the spot for demanding a reporter disclose his or her ethnicity to me before I answer his question." Ah, those were the good ol' naïve days Nicole, when Republicans thought they could afford to stand up against a government official who predicates answering a question on knowing the ethnicity of the questioner.
On the very same day, George Conway had an opinion piece in the Washington Post: Donald Trump is a racist president. He builds the history of Trump racism, birtherism, Mexican Judges, Charlottesville. George Conway is a Republican. He wanted to give Trump the benefit of the doubt:
George Conway wrote:No, I thought, President Trump was boorish, dim-witted, inarticulate, incoherent, narcissistic and insensitive. He’s a pathetic bully but an equal-opportunity bully — in his uniquely crass and crude manner, he’ll attack anyone he thinks is critical of him. No matter how much I found him ultimately unfit, I still gave him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist. No matter how much I came to dislike him, I didn’t want to think that the president of the United States is a racial bigot.
But Sunday left no doubt. naïvété, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president. Trump could have used vile slurs, including the vilest of them all, and the intent and effect would have been no less clear. Telling four non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — to “go back” to the “countries” they “originally came from”? That’s racist to the core. It doesn’t matter what these representatives are for or against — and there’s plenty to criticize them for — it’s beyond the bounds of human decency. For anyone, not least a president.
Conway goes on to provide a roadmap into the thinking that has produced the virtual silence of the GOP:
George Conway wrote:...They’re silent not because they agree with Trump. Surely they know better. They’re silent because, knowing that he’s incorrigible, they have inured themselves to his wild statements; because, knowing that he’s a fool, they don’t really take his words seriously and pretend that others shouldn’t, either; because, knowing how damaging Trump’s words are, the Republicans don’t want to give succor to their political enemies; because, knowing how vindictive, stubborn and obtusely self-destructive Trump is, they fear his wrath.
But none of that is good enough. Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot — he’s the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country. What’s at stake now is more important than judges or tax cuts or regulations or any policy issue of the day. What’s at stake are the nation’s ideals, its very soul.
What keeps the Conways together? Meditation? Yoga? Watching RomComs on the couch? Great makeup sex? Whatever it is, it does not answer the questions about what their thoughts could possibly on this particular Tuesday night.
Anyway, in the Quantum universe, I'm pretty sure the play Tuesday Night At The Conways simultaneously exists and does not exist.