It has been well documented that the left’s favorite accusation to throw at the right is that all Republicans are racists, and use secret “dog whistles” to communicate that message. But now that the liberal media seems to be in the early stages of panic over Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning, CNN’s Brian Stelter posed the question of, has the media called the right racist enough, during his show Reliable Sources on Sunday.

For a long time the media has accused Republican policies of having racial undertones, yet while analyzing the media’s explanation for Trump’s rise, “economic anxiety,” Stelter asks the viewers, “But are the talking heads missing something, when they pin it all on the economy? What about racial anxiety as a factor?” Stelter quoted an argument from the leftist website Slate:

Jamelle Bouie has noted, “Among voters, higher levels of racial resentment have been shown to be associated with greater support for Trump.” Jamelle Bouie’s view is that white America backlash to a black president is something that helped to spawn Trump.

And with that, Stelter connected Trump slogan, which was Ronald Reagan’s 1980 slogan, with racist dog whistles. “Now he and others have asserted that “make America great again,” that slogan we see on those signs is really about restoring whites to a preferred position in an increasingly multicultural America,” he hypothesized.

Tom Wise, who is a noted “anti-racism activist,” agreed with Stelter. He demanded to know when was America and who was it great for:

The biggest mistake, how many media folks have actually asked Donald Trump or any of his key supporters, “Hey, what does that hat mean? You're wearing this hat that says “make America great again,” when exactly was America great?” And not just for white people with money, like Donald Trump, but when was it great for people of color? When was it great for LGBT folk? When was it great for women as women?

The host of CNN’s United Shades of America argued that “America was built on racial anxiety,” and had his own reason as to why the liberal media hasn’t talked about racism on the right. “[The] Main stream media, which is in large part owned by white people, is always afraid of an honest and open race conversation,” he theorized. Bell went on the whine about how he was the only black person on his production crew and how awkward it was, but how many conservatives were a part of the crew?

Race has been such a huge part of liberal critiques that they have accused Republicans Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio of not being Hispanic enough. Not to mention accusing President Obama’s opponents of racism at every turn. It’s very disingenuous to assert that the liberal media has somehow missed covert racism in the Republican Party, especially when they have taken very opportunity to claim they have found it.

Partial transcript below: