After the rank-and-file of the Republican Party didn’t pillorize Ron Paul for his racist newsletters and other associations, it really should have struck home that the reason for the silence was due to the fact that they actually didn’t have a problem with it.
A line has been crossed - they are now openly accepting and embracing the same racists and nationalists who in the not-too-distant past were considered as radioactive poison to the party. At this point, nothing that they do could really surprise me anymore.