Deb Orin at the NY Post [1] lays it out
Republicans are rightly annoyed, and point out that if anything like this had happened at an event where a top Republican was present and did nothing to stop it, we’d hear no end of it between now and November.
“It’s disgraceful. It’s like an Upper West Side Manhattan left-wing Ku Klux Klan mentality,” said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.). “If some Southern redneck talked like this about a liberal, everyone would denounce it. But because it’s Upper West Side humor, somehow it’s supposed to be chic.”