Dear Racist-In-Chief,

We have known all along that you are a racist, ever since you and your father refused to rent to blacks until you were forced to. Ever since you lied about President Obama’s birthplace. Ever since you praised the white nationalists and Nazis in Charlottesville. Ever since you decried Mexican immigrants as rapists.

And now, that traditional racist taunt: “Go back where you came from,” directed to women of color, most of whom were born in the United States and one of whom achieved citizenship as set forth by law. It’s no surprise. It’s just part of your continued effort to divide Americans, one from the other, the way you built your presidential campaign.

You may have some supporters who feel that they are not racists, but they strike me now as a small minority. Your cult followers, whether “personally” racists or not, are contributing to your division of the country, to your fomenting hatred, by looking the other way, by being afraid to speak up against you. That makes them just as guilty as you.

What general do you praise? Robert E. Lee, who fought a war against his own country in an effort to preserve slavery of black people. Some heroes you have, Mr. Trump, those who wanted to enshrine slavery as an American institution or die fighting to do so.

As George Conway called you in his op-ed piece Jul6 16, you’re a “pathetic bully,” but you’re much worse than that as well. As he pointed out correctly, you’re a “racial bigot” of the lowest class.

I can’t do better than quote the conclusion of Conway’s piece: “What’s at stake now is more important than judges or tax cuts or regulations or any policy issue of the day. What’s at stake are the nation’s ideals, its very soul.” Thank you Mr. Conway.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger