MSNBC Panel on Baltimore: There’s No ‘Grand Strategy,’ Trump Is ‘Just an Old Racist’

EXCERPT:

DEBENEDETTI: “We are seeming to accept the premise that it’s actually useful for him politically to rile up these racial tensions, to use white identity politics. He has certainly used them for a long time now, ever since he announced he was running for president. It’s not actually clear that this was going to work, especially —“
LOPEZ: “This is just who Donald Trump is. He’s just an old racist. And this is how he talks about people, this is what he thinks about people. This is not a grand strategy. He’s not playing four, five, six-dimensional chess. He’s just an old racist who uses social media badly.”
BOLDEN: “But those Republican strategists are endorsing this strategy that’s based on the racial divide.”
LOPEZ: “Well, there are a bunch of racists in the Republican Party.”