President Trump’s own FBI director has indicated that white supremacy-related domestic terrorism is on the rise. That rise has been frequently noted in the past few weeks, as Trump has been escalating his anti-immigrant rhetoric.

In an address Monday, Trump acknowledged the racial hatred apparently at play in the El Paso shooting by saying something he rarely does: “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy.” He made no connection between those things and his own racially divisive rhetoric.

Most, but not all, Republican officials reacting over the weekend to two mass shootings are talking about everything else.

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Here’s a sampling of high-profile Republican reactions over the weekend (more here):

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: “We’ve always had guns. We’ve always had evil. But what’s changed where we see this rash of shooting? And I see a video game industry that teaches young people to kill."

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas: “Sadly, there are some issues, like homelessness and these shootings, where we simply don’t have all the answers.”

After Patrick said that a manifesto likely published online by the shooting suspect briefly cited “Call of Duty,” Fox News asked other lawmakers what they think of video games’ influence, and people such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) channeled the blame in that direction.

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“When you look at these photos of how it took place, you can see the actions within video games and others,” McCarthy said, adding that video games “dehumanize.”

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That line of thought was particularly jarring for how much it overlooks in the broader debate. Video games may dehumanize, but pointing the finger at them gives an easy way out from acknowledging how Trump’s rhetoric dehumanizes its targets — most recently exemplified by his telling four minority congresswomen to “go back” and in describing Baltimore as “rat infested.”

“Donald Trump, dumping on immigrants all the time,” Leonard Zeskind, author of a history of the white nationalist movement, told The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker, “creates an atmosphere where some people interpret that to be an okay sign for violence against immigrants.”

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A notable exception to this was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), a son of a Cuban immigrant. Cruz spoke about the El Paso shooting in the context of racial hatred. But Cruz did not connect the dots, as many scholars are doing, to Trump.

Before Trump, talking about the motive of a mass shooter was something Republicans often preferred to do. Getting into a discussion of how the shooter might have twisted thoughts that made him use guns in a violent way steered the conversation away from gun control. Republicans want to do less of that now, at least if they want to remain elected officials in the Republican Party under Trump.

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We’ve seen, very recently, how determined most Republicans are to avoid criticizing the president. I wrote this in July after his “go back” tweets, which most in the GOP were unwilling to label as racist: “It seems that most in the GOP have learned over the years that they have nothing to gain by speaking out against Trump, and plenty to lose — like their jobs.”

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The list of Republican lawmakers who have openly and sharply spoken out against Trump’s rhetoric and are now retired is long — and growing longer by the day: former House speaker Paul D. Ryan, former senator Jeff Flake (Ariz.), former senator Bob Corker (Tenn.) and retiring Rep. Martha Roby of Alabama, to name a few.