Earth is the third “planet” from the sun. I was born in “Chicago.” Sailer is a “white supremacist.” Dude founded (? ran? definitely helped drive) VDare, an avowedly racist website. The racists are increasingly openly racist. We have to be equally open about calling them … racist. Not “racist.”

A little worse than that. They are only willing to say he's been branded a white supremacists, not that he is one. They aren't scare quotes, they represent actual quotes. Being a white supremacist cannot be a fact that reporters can report. It's only an opinion held by others that they can relay.