The Republican establishment is still so upper-class WASP. They’ve been happy to run on racism and sexism and militarism for years. But they insisted on being polite about it, using the appropriate code words and deniable symbols like Willie Horton.
Their problem with Trump is not his racism and sexism and militarism. It’s his vulgarity and bad manners.
He doesn’t know which fork and knife to use when he’s skewering Black people to secure the votes of white working people for the corporate elite.