First, he is clearly no racist. If you look at the full text of his comments, what he is expressing is sympathy and empathy. The fact that he has been painted as a racist shows clearly that there is NO ROOM in our current cultural space for actual, meaningful, useful, human dialogue. There is NO ROOM for treating ideological others as human beings with a right to life and to their own opinions. Quite literally, they are subhuman Untermenschen.
And tax evasion? The Secretary of the Treasury–who is in charge of the IRS–cheated on his taxes. Dozens of IRS employees cheated on their taxes, and still got bonuses.
What this thing really shows is how effective the propagandistic control is that the complicit media have come to exert on the feeble minded, among whose ranks regrettably are most of the graduates of our allegedly best universities, and many of the people who teach in them.
I will suggest the following test to any Power Elite reading this: see how quickly and seamlessly you can transition this hate to affection. How quickly can you get the same people calling for his head to congratulate him? It would be interesting for both of us to watch.
Large segments of our populace appears to me fully willing to operate within a fully Orwellian universe, where truth is mutable and subject to change on a dime, and conformity to the dominant narrative the only enduring social imperative. It is sickening to observe how many of these people think of themselves as independent minded, and capable of the exercise of reason; how ARROGANT most of them are.