WATCH Joy Reid SHUT DOWN An Ex-GOP Congressman For Making Racist Remarks About Latinos

In the Era of Trump, bigotry, discrimination, and outright hatred have become acceptable to some on the right. It’s as if Trump has managed to partially normalize such vile behavior among the lugnuts who constitute portions of the Republican Party.

We got a perfect example of this behavior and rhetoric Saturday on the MSNBC show AM Joy. One of Joy Reid’s guests was former Arizona GOP Congressman J.D. Hayworth, a man who proves that horse manure is indeed stacked a high as a man’s head in some places.

Immigration activists Rosie Perez and Maria Hinojosa were discussing how traumatic it can be to be a Hispanic in the United States and how you may be stopped and questioned at any time by immigration officials. Hayworth chimed in and asserted that he too faced such treatment as a white man, saying:

“I’ve gone through questioning by the Border Patrol when i was moving from Cincinnati, and, Maria understands this. When I was moving from Cincinnati to Arizona and driving along our southeast border, I have been stopped by the Border Patrol. I have been asked if I was a citizen, my car has been examined and the same thing has happened in Southern California. If you go down south to San Diego, everybody has had a situation where there has been traffic stops for border security.”

Hayworth was then asked:

“Have you ever been asked to present something beyond your driver’s license?”

He replied:

“You bet I have. Not by immigration but by federal law enforcement. I’ve been asked for my date of birth and my social security card.”

Hinojosa told Hayworth:

“That’s not the same.”

Reid then asked Hayworth about a report that an undocumented woman had been taken into custody after reporting a domestic attack. But Hayworth tried to start talking about “Latino on Latina violence.”

Clearly annoyed by Hayworth, Reid told him:

“You talked early about false narrative, and now you’re replying to a specific incident with an attempt to talk about Latino and Latino violence. Essentially you’re trying to ascribe violence to an entire race of people ethnicity.”

Rather than address the matter, Hayworth then brought up Senator Elizabeth Warren being partially Native American, saying:

“We’ll take it out of the ethnicity although that’s tough when you take a look at the stunt that Elizabeth Warren pulled.”

Reid, visibly angered, then shut down Hayworth completely, telling him:

“Can I just tell me something. We’re going to end here, but sir, you’ve talked about strawmen twice, you’ve answered questions with non sequiturs that have some sort of ethnic base to them. Now you’ve gone after Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage. I think we’re done with this segment. You literally answered with a non sequitur and that is incredibly offensive.”

The word disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe racist asshats like J.D. Hayworth.

Here’s the video from AMJoy:

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