It's a measure of our times to see a majority of Americans say the United States president is a racist. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 57 percent of American adults think so, including 8 in 10 black Americans, three quarters of Hispanics, and nearly half of whites. More than half of all respondents said his policies have made things worse for Muslims and Hispanics, while nearly half said the same for black Americans. Of course, just 21 percent of Republicans think Trump is a racist. Then again, we learned this week that nearly 40 percent of those in the Party of Lincoln think American schools are teaching too much black history.

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Nearly 40% of Republicans now think schools are teaching too much black history, which is tragic because black history explains why there is a Republican Party in the first place.https://t.co/9DMXKKXc8K pic.twitter.com/3bOl3wYt9m — Adam Rothman (@arothmanhistory) February 28, 2018

This is no shock, at least for anyone willing to pay attention. Donald Trump has told reporters he is "the least racist person you will ever interview," but that was his response to reports he dismissed all 54 countries of Africa as "shitholes" and wondered why the U.S. didn't take more immigrants from places like Norway instead. He reportedly said Nigerians who come here would never "go back to their huts in Africa,” and suggested Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS.” During the 2016 campaign, Trump spread disgusting propaganda about black-on-white crime and lied about the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border. He said a federal judge could not preside over his case fairly because the judge’s parents were Mexican. In his speech declaring his run for president, he characterized Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.

This didn't begin with the 2016 campaign. In the 1970s, Trump and his father were sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination against black New Yorkers. In 1989, he took out a full-page newspaper ad calling for the death penalty for a group of black and brown 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds convicted in the Central Park Jogger rape case, and continued to advocate for it 14 years later when their wrongful conviction was overturned. Trump began his political career with a loud and completely evidence-free campaign to prove Barack Obama, America's first black president, was born in Kenya. He also repeatedly suggested that Obama, who was editor of the Harvard Law Review, could not have gotten into Ivy League schools legitimately.

And then, when hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and those who think it's a good idea to march alongside them took to the streets in Charlottesville—and one among them murdered an anti-racist protester with his car in what even Attorney General Jeff Sessions called an act of domestic terrorism—Trump refused to condemn them and suggested there were "very fine people on both sides."

The shock is that the numbers above weren't higher.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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