Yair Rosenberg: “So is Trump a philo-Semite or an anti-Semite? The answer is both. The principle that explains his seemingly contradictory outlook toward Jews is simple: Trump believes all the anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews. But he sees those traits as admirable.”

“To Trump, the belief that Jews are foreign interlopers who use their wealth to serve their own clannish interests is not a negative — as it is for traditional anti-Semites — but rather a positive. He wants Jews to be his attorneys and manage his money, so that he, too, can be rich. He wants them in his political corner, so that he, too, can be powerful. He wants to buy politicians, just like they do.”

“As a man who has always stood solely for his own naked self-interest, Trump does not see the anti-Semitic conception of the self-interested Jew as a complaint, but rather a compliment. He prioritizes his needs ahead of the national interest, and so he sees the idea that Jews might do the same with themselves or with Israel as entirely natural.”

“I think that any Jewish people who vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”

— President Trump, quoted by Axios.

Michael Gerson: “Racism is the fire that left our country horribly disfigured. It is the beast we try to keep locked in the basement. When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame.”

“It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial… And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving racist tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.”

“Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke both called President Trump a ‘white supremacist,’ an extraordinary charge at an extraordinary moment in American politics,” Axios reports.

“This is a big shift from calling the president a white nationalist. Check out Merriam-Webster’s definition of white supremacist: ‘a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.'”

Hatewatch has identified U.S. State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert as a member of the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization who has also hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online.

“Gebert, works as a foreign affairs officer assigned to the Bureau of Energy Resources… Online, and in private correspondences with other white nationalists, Gebert uses ‘Coach Finstock’ as a pseudonym. Through that alias, he expressed a desire to build a country for whites only.”

“A Texas police department is under fire after photos surfaced over the weekend showing two horse-mounted white police officers leading a black man in handcuffs down a street with a rope,” Yahoo News reports.

“The two officers arrested 43-year-old Donald Neely on Saturday for criminal trespass after several warnings… But instead of waiting for a transport vehicle to take Neely back to where the other officers were stationed, the cops on horseback tied a rope around his handcuffs and forced him to walk behind their horses for several blocks.”

“It’s too late for him not to be a white nationalist, and to not bear some responsibility for what’s happened here.”

— Mayor Pete Buttigieg, quoted by CNN, on President Trump.

New York Times: “Experts say that the similarities are far from a coincidence. White nationalist terrorism is following a progression eerily similar to that of jihadism under the leadership of the Islamic State, in ways that do much to explain why the attacks have suddenly grown so frequent and deadly.”

“In both, there is the apocalyptic ideology that predicts — and promises to hasten — a civilizational conflict that will consume the world. There is theatrical, indiscriminate violence that will supposedly bring about this final battle, but often does little more than grant the killer a brief flash of empowerment and win attention for the cause.”

“Jesus Christ, of course he’s racist.”

— Beto O’Rourke, talking about President Trump on Morning Joe.

Beto O’Rourke tore into President Trump in an emotional rant when asked by a reporter if there was anything that the president could do after the latest two mass shootings.

Said O’Rourke: “What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don’t know, like, members of the press, what the fuck?”

He added: “I mean, connect the dots about what he’s been doing in this country. He’s not tolerating racism, he’s promoting racism. He’s not tolerating violence, he’s inciting racism and violence in this country. So, uhm, you know, I just… I don’t know what kind of question that is.”

Nebraska state Sen. John McCollister (R) called out President Trump and the Republican party for “enabling white supremacy,” the Washington Post reports.

Said McCollister: “We have a Republican president who continually stokes racist fears in his base. He calls certain countries ‘shitholes,’ tells women of color to ‘go back’ to where they came from and lies more than he tells the truth. We have Republican senators and representatives who look the other way and say nothing for fear that it will negatively affect their elections.”

He added: “No more. When the history books are written, I refuse to be someone who said nothing. The time is now for us Republicans to be honest with what is happening inside our party. We are better than this and I implore my Republican colleagues to stand up and do the right thing.”