Why are Republicans seemingly unable to see Trump's blatant & obvious racism?

[°Leprechaun]

"America Love it or Leave it"

What if I were to say, "Atlas, Love it or Leave it" to all those snowflake Trumplicans, who hate it here so much?

"Far right" sounds a lot like "Far white"

[136or142]

It's kind of funny.  All Republicans can do these days is label themselves with meaningless slogans: 'we're the freedom caucus' 'we're constitutional conservatives' and yet you accurately label Trump as a 'racist' and they get unhappy over it.

[°Leprechaun]

It's kind of funny.  All Republicans can do these days is label themselves with meaningless slogans: 'we're the freedom caucus' 'we're constitutional conservatives' and yet you accurately label Trump as a 'racist' and they get unhappy over it.

[Xing]

Oh, they absolutely see (and deny) it. They either like it or don’t care.

[DINGO Joe]

Simple, they're a bunch of Klanmunchers.

[Progressive Pessimist]

It's because their base eats it up. And if their base finds it appealing it becomes an easy way to stay in power. That's all the Republican Party cares about, fostering self-interested and tribalistic sensibilities so they can stay in power and impose their will on others. Whether those in power are racist or not doesn't matter. These qualities endemic to the mindset of the majority of Republicans. They exist in place of the part of the brain that processes empathy, hypocrisy, self-awareness, or the ability to comprehend what makes something bigoted or not.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

When they finally lose power again, since 2009, after Palin, they will see what Trump has done

[HAnnA MArin County]

When they finally lose power again, since 2009, after Palin, they will see what Trump has done

Why is this nincompoop suddenly being mentioned again on Atlas?

They disguise it as "economic anxiety," same way the deplorables do with the Confederate flag (heritage not hate). Trump's castratos in Congress are now shamelessly deflecting to defend him, saying that his tweets were an attack on their ideology, not their race/ethnicity/religion etc. If it really was about ideology, why didn't he go after a self-proclaimed socialist who's trying to defeat him? Hmm, why attack The Squad and not Bernie Sanders? I'd like to think that the majority of Americans aren't as stupid and gullible as the #MAGA cult and can see it for what it is. But Trump knows his supporters are racist (excuse me, economically anxious) and that's all he cares about.

[Slander and/or Libel]

It's because to them, the takeaway from the civil rights movement wasn't that racism is bad, but that identifying as racist is bad. Identifying as racist has become a social taboo, and so when they're called racist, they feel like they're being tarred with that taboo, and that's not fair.

At root, it's because they've never had any introspection about what racism is or why it's bad. They see anti-racism simply as a card the other side tries to play to box them in, and so they respond cynically, as they continually project their own beliefs onto the other side.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I think The Onion nailed this one:

White Supremacists Warn Idealistic Trump Some Compromise Will Be Necessary To Achieve Their Goals

Riley added that if Trump truly wants to see the purity of the white race protected, he should step back and listen to his Republican colleagues who have been working towards that goal for decades.