I’m so glad to be called intellectually lazy for calling out Chucky Todd and the rest of the so called journalists who have actively avoided addressing the 800 pound gorilla in the room that is Trump’s overt racism and xenophobia.

Trump makes no secret of this stuff. He actively quotes/tweets white supremacists (the guy he frequently quotes has a handle whitegenocide). That’s not hiding in the shadows. He’s out there.

Trump pushes a xenophobic agenda - demonizing Muslims and Mexicans. He makes all kinds of threats and baseless statements, and his supporters - GOP supporters - flock to him in ever greater numbers.

Where’s the reporting on all that? Journalists appear dumbfounded that Trump’s knocking out all the career politicians and the pretenders, but fact is that Trump is saying essentially the same thing as the rest of the candidates - only that he’s far more explicit and blunt.

That’s biting analysis, not intellectual laziness. Intellectual laziness is Chucky Todd getting his panties in a bunch about being called out for ignoring Trump’s racism/xenophobia, but only identifying when journalists are the target of Trump’s ire (*which is what happens daily, but I digress).

Guess Todd ignored what happened when Trump railed into Megyn Kelly. Trump’s ratings soared.

But the thing I’ve got to love the most is the Trump fans who think that minorities are flocking to Trump. No proof. None whatsoever. In the primaries, Trump is getting about what you’d expect based on the percentages he’s won - and most minorities simply don’t vote Republican. And with Trump’s incessant statements, he’s not going to curry favors to improve the GOP standing with minorities either.