In the most predictable interview in the history of interviews. editor of the progressive magazine The Progressive (solid title) Ruth Conniff appeared on MSNBC today to explain that Scott Walker is a racist, breaking the record for most obvious and pathetic talking point since Cain's "it depends on what the definition of 'my brother's keeper' is."

A progressive calling a conservative racist? STOP. THE. PRESSES.

Her theory, such as it is, breaks down this way: Scott Walker is low-key with his subtle racism, but he has also used the dog whistle to get explicitly racist voters to vote for him. But now that Trump is here, the loud racists are taking their racist votes from subtly racist Walker and giving them to loudly racist Trump. Because racism.

Got it? No? Here's how the explicitly humdrum Conniff put her Platonic ideal of a liberal talking point:

"Donald Trump has taken out a bullhorn and said the things that Walker used to say with a dog whistle. I mean you'll notice when you played the clip of his speech, all of these things he bragged about doing in Wisconsin have this subtle racial subtext, and that's no accident. Walker's political rise comes out of the right-wing talk radio sphere right around the suburbs of Milwaukee and there's a lot of very explicit racism there. And that's been a part of his campaign in a low-key way, he's appealed to racism among voters. Donald Trump just gets right out there with it."

For her second act, progressive editor of progressive magazine The Progressive should just read a Daily Kos diary aloud. It will be just as predictable and lame, but at least it will have some hashtags associated with it. #YesAllInsertTropeHere.