I saw that article and also tried to follow Goldberg’s logic. He seemed to be saying with a straight face that the Republican party has no racist planks in its platform and no person associated with the Republican party has ever made a remark that could in any way be legitimately interpreted as racist, sexist, classist, or otherist. They’re all a bunch of saints, apparently, so any claim otherwise can be dismissed with hand-waving. Hence the scare quotes. It really is further evidence that Republicans are living in an alternate universe of their own creation—a psychologist would say that the entire party has become psychotic.