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Political reporters doing their best to pretend obvious racism isn't racism certainly isn't new, but these days Republican politicians are just running right across the lines with impunity.

Of course even horribly toxic racist politicians can be interviewed, but our system of elite political reporting is largely chummy, not adversarial, and they're all jolly good chums.

Lindsey Graham's the wacky neighbor who comes by every night to shoot the shit, not someone who faces scrutiny during his 700 daily TV hits.