Trib debases journalism with false equivalency view of wall dispute

The Trib, apparently, is loathe to offer unvarnished criticism of Republicans over Trump's destructive use of racist, Xenophobic policies, to call them out for enabling Trump's month long government shutdown. Every decent American knew Trump was engaging in virulent racism when he campaigned on a gigantic Southern border wall to keep out 'the murders and rapists pouring over the border.' Is that language really any different than Rep. Steve King's' comment that "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization - how did that language become offensive?" One can make a strong case Trump's words were worse, being grotesque lies specifically targeting the racist, white nationalist voters he needed by validating their hate against the other; that is all non-white, non-citizens. Not only worse, Trump's language did significant damage to our body politic, coming from a presidential contender who used them effectively to get elected. Piling on the damage, Trump is now shutting down the government to give those racists and white nationalists what they want: a pretend barrier keeping out the other, even though it won't.

Yet, the Trib's Editorial, "Trump and Democrats: Stop embarrassing yourselves. Cut a wall-for-Dreamers deal" treats the wall issue as a simple political dispute in which each party is behaving in an infantile fashion while the government shuts down. But Every dollar the Democrats might authorize for a non functioning barrier to solve a non existing problem so Trump can fulfill a racist campaign pledge would debase good governance. Every editorial calling for trading the funding for a racist wall for long overdue relief for Dreamers, relief that should have been granted long ago without conditions, debases journalism.