In 2016, future Republican New York House candidate Carl Paladino wanted everyone to know that he wasn’t racist and that he also believes Black Americans are lemmings for the Democratic Party who don’t know what’s good for them.
He should keep talking. I’m hoping that he goes down the list of racial and ethnic slurs - telling each group, by name, how they need to reclaim the epithet for their own. It will do wonders for the party’s image and his candidacy.
Shorter Palladino: Ignore everything I’ve said in the past, and most of what I say now. The only guy less racist that I am is Donald Trump, but I’m pretty close.