"You Have to Have a Conscience in Order to Have a Crisis of Conscience"

"While Trump does not have such blood directly on his hands, he has campaigned and governed on the basis of racist dog-whistles about restoring a formerly 'great' America. Racial intolerance has been perhaps the only consistent part of Trump's political character; it runs unbroken from discriminating against blacks in his family’s apartment empire, to demanding the death penalty for the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five, to trumpeting the birther lie about Barack Obama, to urging the crowds at his rallies to rough up black protesters, to rhetorically defending neo-Nazis and Confederate symbols as president.
"And Trump's denunciations and policies against Muslims, Mexicans, Central American immigrants, and African 'shithole countries,' topped off by inciting anti-Chinese sentiment during the Covid-19 pandemic, make him a more expansive bigot than Wallace ever was."

In The Guardian, Samuel G. Freedman writes, "Stop comparing Trump to the infamous racist George Wallace. It's unfair to Wallace."