“It’s the genes, man.”

Trump has said more than once, “I am the least racist person you have ever met.” 

Those wearing MAGA lids, slapping “Guns = Liberty” bumper stickers on their cars, trucks and tanks, and are in the market for used Confederate statues find these words from their leader soothing and satisfying. Why is this?  Because white supremacists and bigots from Bemidji to Boca Raton do feel a queasiness about being called, well, white supremacists and bigots. 

And so when their mirror, mirror on the wall who is the least racist of all steps up and tells his base, as he did a week ago in Minnesota, 

“You have good genes, you know that, right? You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.”  

There it is. Trump’s true believers-- the conned,  the fearful white supremacists, and the rationalizing bigots– they all sigh inwardly with gratitude. They chant and strut in a cloud of smug self-delusion.  Trump is right.  “It’s the genes, man.”

And thinking Republicans?   “Racehorse theory?”  I don’t think so. Most Republicans realized long ago that Trump is science challenged. 200,000 Covid deaths under his failed leadership sealed this understanding. It’s hard to believe Trump’s scary eugenics theory that turns white Minnesotans into champion bloodline thoroughbreds is a track thinking Republicans care to go down or care to vote for.

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Gary Daily, Terre Haute Tribune Star, Reader's  Forum, Oct. 16, 2020