Another week of Trump bigotry and the obfuscation of such by Republican officials who are so very afraid of standing up to Trump that they're peeing in their pants. Republicans never were the "strong" party, after all: "I think [Trump's] racist," said Mickey Edwards, a Reagan-era GOP lawmaker who once chaired the American Conservative Union.Edwards added that simple "cowardice" explains the party's refusal to denounce Trump and other Republicans' racial views.