On Thursday morning, CNN’s New Day continued the nearly week long “President Trump is a racist” media storm. One of the liberal journalist guests on the program went further, smearing all Trump supporters as racists.

The hosts turned to Tiffany Cross, the managing editor of The Beat DC, and it was clear that she went on the show with a mission: paint all Trump supporters as bigoted white supremacists:

But when you are backing a candidate who has made his entire campaign about white identity politics, about how white people are getting the short end of the stick, and he has backed that up with racist rhetoric, racist policies, racist action and this is the camp you're in, then you do identify with some level of racism. You do fall in the category of white supremacy.

Cross was adamant that the media should forgo terms like “racially charged” in exchange for alienating half the country by calling the President a white supremacist:

Listen, this is not anything that's shocking to a lot of people across the country. We've known this. I think it's, you know, challenging for some of us to watch when we've seen over the past few years for us to describe these comments as “racially charged” or “some people perceive them to be as racist.” We have to start calling this out and say this President is a white supremacist.

She also made an astounding leap of logic. Apparently, the individuals who voted for President Obama and then switched to Trump in 2016, did it because “they held hostile views on race”:

There's a study by UCLA, UC Irvine, and Princeton that shows the number one reason that people switch from Democrat to Republican to vote for Obama and then vote for Trump was because they all held hostile views on race.

Somehow supporters of a former black president are now racist because they shifted towards Trump? Her wild accusations were even too much for host Alisyn Camerota, who pushed back on this falsely cited study and offered real insight into how much of the country feels about “white privilege”:

Well, hold on. I do just want to say one thing about what you just said, because we read the top line of that UC Davis research as well. And it's that some whites who voted for Trump, it's not that they love the racist talk. It's that they don't feel that they've ever benefitted from white privilege. Their kids may go to substandard public schools. They haven't coasted on whatever people think is white privilege. And so they feel that race -- all the talk of race hasn't worked for them. I just think that's a little bit different than them being driven by racist animus.

When CNN regularly hosts guests with radical views like Cross, they normalize them. The media is attempting to make race a central issue in the 2020 election. Former Obama supporters aren’t even safe from the vitriol of left. Based on this week’s news cycle, it’s clear that the divisive nature of American politics will only continue to get more polarized moving forward.

Here is the relevant transcript from the segment: