Here ' s the thing though . If you ' re tired of being called a racist and a sexist . And then elevate a candidate that is blatantly racist and sexist . No one is going to stop calling you those things . They had 16 candidates to choose from , was there really no one the Republican base could have rallied behind that was both antiestablishment , and not being accused by a dozen women of sexual assault , and not insulting American citizens based on their race alone ? Maybe there wasn ' t . Maybe all 16 were too establishment for them . Does that mean then that they are justified in excusing the racism and sexism we observed all campaign season ? Or , does that mean they have a responsibility to find and support candidates that if they are being honest about their values is not racist or sexist , but who is also antiestablishment ? If so many Republicans feel that way , surely one of them should be competent and capable enough to run a political campaign . I don ' t believe the majority of Trump supporters are blatantly racist or sexist , but I do believe there is an ingrained , subconscious tendency of the majority of his supporters to deny , excuse , and willfully blind themselves to the reality of who Trump is . Because they are not out publicly berating or attacking people of color , they do not think they ' re being racist . But , they fail to realize that by watching someone say and do racist and sexist things , and then still voting for him in spite of it , making excuses for him , denying who he is telling us he is it tells the rest of the world that they do not care if he is that way . They do not care if people of color , women , LGBT , Muslims , are personally afraid of him . They don ' t even believe these groups when they express that fear . They ' re told they ' re just being sore losers , to stop crying , that he wouldn ' t actually do anything to them . He just had to say that he was going to in order to get elected . And they still wonder why people are afraid . Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity . The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people . He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it . MLK