"This is the Republican Party's presumed nominee for the highest office in the land channeling Archie Bunker without the laugh track."

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COMMENTS: 
*  At least Archie didn't have 4 bankruptcies and an illegitimate University named after him.
*  For Trump there are only two kinds of people - those who believe whatever he says, no matter how wrong it may be, and those who are biased against him (haters of Donald Trump, in his words). He probably thinks he could fire Congress if it didn't give him what he wanted.
*  Spot on! The argument that a judge cannot be part of a Charity or an Association is ridiculous. Judges are human beings and have outside interests. This case was initiated in 2013, two years before Archie Trump first proposed the wall in 2015. I think Archie should ask his sister if she would need to recuse herself if she is part of a case with a white woman as the defendant. Scalia recuse himself on any abortion case because his was Catholic? It is embarrassing that we are talking about a bigot from Queens potentially appointing people to the Supreme Court!!
*  What you see is what you get with Donald Trump, and it is not much.
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Archie Bunker politics
Can Donald Trump see anything beyond a person's race or religion?
By Baltimore Sun, June 6, 2016

Who knew that the "Archie Bunker for President" bumper stickers of the 1970s would ever prove so prescient? Donald Trump may be as close to that "All in the Family" character as any Hollywood casting director could ever imagine. His latest attacks on Indiana-born U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel of California — that he is incapable of deciding a case involving Trump University fairly because "he's a Mexican" — could have been lifted from the sitcom's script.

Forty-five years ago, Norman Lear created the opinionated loading dock worker from Queens who soon became a TV icon with a multitude of flaws — deeply bigoted and full of malapropisms and ignorance. Was he supposed to be a working class hero or a racist, misogynistic villain? What had been intended as parody may have hit too close to home for those who identified with him, yet, in every episode, the character's views were proven wrong — his bigotry exposed, his preconceptions shown to be unfounded, his anger or hatred misplaced and self-destructive.

We're still waiting for Trump's audience to recognize and condemn the biases of the likely GOP presidential nominee. As if to ensure that his fans don't mistakenly believe his views on judicial diversity were a slip of the tongue, Mr. Trump on Sunday told CBS-TV's John Dickerson on "Face The Nation" that a Muslim judge couldn't decide a case involving him either. Mr. Trump's logic is, in classic narcissistic fashion, self-interested in the extreme: A judge of Mexican heritage must recuse himself because of the candidate's views on building a wall along the U.S. border, while a Muslim judge couldn't possibly decide a Trump-involved case fairly because the candidate has proposed banning Muslims who aren't U.S. citizens from entering the country.

In other words, Mr. Trump looks at a person's race or ethnicity or religion and that's all he sees. He can't imagine that a non-white, non-Christian person could be fair, impartial or judicial given the insults he's hurled. By that line of reasoning, a white judge would not be acceptable either because such a judge would be too sympathetic to Mr. Trump.

On how many levels is this insane? How exactly can we assign cases to the federal courts if every judge is regarded as biased based on his or her skin color or religion? It's an argument that's not merely bigoted, it delegitimizes the judiciary. It is, as Mr. Trump's fellow iconoclast Newt Gingrich pointed out, "inexcusable" and behavior unworthy of a presidential candidate.

It's time Trump apologizers and enablers stopped applauding him as "telling it like it is" or immune to "political correctness." This isn't some campus debate turned imbroglio because the commencement speaker once invested in large oil companies. This is the Republican Party's presumed nominee for the highest office in the land channeling Archie Bunker without the laugh track. Overt bigotry matters. Mr. Trump is once again demonstrating why he is the preferred candidate for white supremacists.

Some Republicans, like former House Speaker Gingrich, have started speaking out and condemning this outrageous view. More need to — and forcefully. Otherwise, too many people are getting the message that this kind of thinking is not only acceptable but enlightened. Too many will believe that Trump criticisms can be dismissed as a product of biased media or old-guard "establishment" Republicans who don't wish to cede power to the "outsider" from Queens. Remember when GOP leaders fretted that they would never again win a national election without the support of the growing pool of Latino voters after Mitt Romney fared so poor with them? Mr. Trump may poll below Mr. Romney's 27 percent.

Enough is enough. Racism is racism. Sorry, but tepid endorsements of Donald Trump like the one recently offered by House Speaker Paul Ryan aren't sufficient to clue in the American people that this man is singularly unfit to lead the free world. Judge Curiel, a former prosecutor who famously targeted Mexican drug lords, deserves a public apology from a candidate who has embarrassed himself, his party and his country. In the hands of Norman Lear, Archie Bunker always got his comeuppance, Mr. Trump's will have to wait until Nov. 8 with voters filling in the punch line.
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