"You substitute name-calling of the worst kind for discussion --- in this case, calling Trump's followers racist."

Really, EFC?  Are you implying that they aren't?   Trump's description of Mexicans as drug dealers and murders is the most blatantly racist any presidential candidate has been since George Wallace's 1968 campaign.  At least when Ronald Reagan went to Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1980, where three civil rights workers were murdered by the Klan, Reagan used the dog whistle of "states rights."  That was a clear but still coded message to racists that he was one of them.

Trump didn't even bother with code. His demagoguery set America back over a half century.  Why do you think the Klan endorsed Trump?