Not everything is newsworthy- after all, there are plenty of other conspiracy-theory-embracing bigots spewing racism at holiday dinners and they’ll never be made famous

We now live in a place and time where publishing news that a conservative, dark-money-backed populist politician said racist things isn’t going to hurt them politically. In fact, in some circles that’s going to be seen as a signal of strength and if we don’t learn our lessons from the rise of Trump we are going to get more where that came from, good and hard