Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump's Race-Baiting Has Infested the GOP

Mike Huckabee’s MS-13 tweet shows how the Republican Party has remade itself in the president’s image.

June 25, 2018 at 11:30 AM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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Early Saturday morning, Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and the father of President Donald Trump’s press secretary, took to Twitter with a post featuring MS-13 gang members:

That tweet drew lots of attention, including from the president’s eldest son, who retweeted it. Many other people on social media and elsewhere also noticed Huckabee’s tweet, including me: