That was Sen. Mitt Romney’s response when a reporter asked him point-blank whether it was racist for Donald Trump to tweet that a group of four House members — all women of color — should “go back where they came from” since they don’t like his policies.
And it fits a pattern of race-baiting and quasi-nationalist rhetoric that this president has trotted out time and again going back decades.
Romney’s dodge, to his credit, came at the end of criticism of Trump, noting that the president has a “noble calling to unite all Americans … and I think in that case, the president fell far short with his comments yesterday.