Yes. But you're still
in denial when you claim that the GOP shouldn't be lumped in with white supremacists like the shooter.
The truth is that people like Palin, Bachmann, etc. help create an environment that fuels the kind of hatred that leads to shootings like this by spreading a Cinderella-like story to their followers that paints the world as being divided into easily identifiable good and bad sides. In this (childish) world view, the good people are White Christians, and the bad people are Muslims, Asians, immigrants etc. who are morally inferior to the White Christians and who are attempting to destroy/invade America, a country that (they claim)
belongs to the White Christians.
These pols do this because they know their followers are idiots who already hold similar prejudices, and know that they can easily exploit their ethnocentrism to win elections. Why talk about issues when you can play the race/culture card? That's the GOP tactic, and it
always works to win elections. . .
. . .at the expense of