Wallace had his little school house moment-he would not allowed no Negros into desegregated schools no matter what the federal government said.
Now we have Donald Trump at the Mexican border. Krugman notes that Trumps attacks on John McCain haven't seemed to hurt him with the base.
Alabama has not joined the Union. The Union has joined Alabama.
"But the Republican base really doesn’t care very much. Whatever they may say, its members don’t really care about military heroism — it’s not just the treatment of John Kerry, think about how little they seemed to care when we finally did get Osama. And they really, really don’t care about some old guy who lost an election."
"Trump surely hurt himself a bit with his McCain attack, but he still embodies the base’s id in a way the Village doesn’t seem to understand."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/the-village-the-base-and-saint-john/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body
I wonder how much he really did hurt himself though. I guess we'll have to see what the polls say in the next few weeks. I still fantasize that they won't and maybe the unthinkable happens and he wins the nomination? It makes sense for the base-they are so disaffected by what Obama has been able to do despite their 'wave election' last November.
To be sure the donors might simply refuse to give him funding though he does have his share of cash. Probably it's just a wet dream of mine but a Trump-Hillary election would be idea as we'd at least get an honest presentation.
A defiant Donald Trump, visiting the U.S. border with Mexico here Thursday, said again that he will not apologize for his hard-line rhetoric on illegal immigration or back away from his plan to build a wall between the two nations.
"During a whirlwind visit — it was less than three hours from when his jet touched down to when it took off — Trump blazed around in a presidential-style motorcade that included seven SUVs and even more police cars. Local officers blocked off roads, including Interstate 35, for Trump’s entourage."
"The Republican presidential candidate, leading the GOP field in national polls but increasingly under fire from the establishment wing of his party, said repeatedly that he had been told he would be in “great danger” if he visited this town of 236,000 in southern Texas — even though Laredo, which is roughly 96 percent Hispanic, has a significantly lower murder rate than Trump’s home town of New York City. He would not say who had told him that he was at risk"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-makes-a-texas-size-splash-with-visit-to-mexican-border/2015/07/23/277670c8-316b-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
Mexicans aren't just rapists and drug dealers-they're also murderers.
"This is why I'd love a Trump nomination: it'd be honest. His position on immigration absent the rhetoric is the GOP position. Here he sums it up in a nutshell:
"Trump ducked when asked what he would do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be in the United States."
“The first thing is to secure our borders,” he said, “and after that we’ll have plenty of time to talk about it.”
That is the GOP position: let's secure the border first then we'll discuss these other things on your mind.
Now we have Donald Trump at the Mexican border. Krugman notes that Trumps attacks on John McCain haven't seemed to hurt him with the base.
Alabama has not joined the Union. The Union has joined Alabama.
"But the Republican base really doesn’t care very much. Whatever they may say, its members don’t really care about military heroism — it’s not just the treatment of John Kerry, think about how little they seemed to care when we finally did get Osama. And they really, really don’t care about some old guy who lost an election."
"Trump surely hurt himself a bit with his McCain attack, but he still embodies the base’s id in a way the Village doesn’t seem to understand."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/the-village-the-base-and-saint-john/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body
I wonder how much he really did hurt himself though. I guess we'll have to see what the polls say in the next few weeks. I still fantasize that they won't and maybe the unthinkable happens and he wins the nomination? It makes sense for the base-they are so disaffected by what Obama has been able to do despite their 'wave election' last November.
To be sure the donors might simply refuse to give him funding though he does have his share of cash. Probably it's just a wet dream of mine but a Trump-Hillary election would be idea as we'd at least get an honest presentation.
A defiant Donald Trump, visiting the U.S. border with Mexico here Thursday, said again that he will not apologize for his hard-line rhetoric on illegal immigration or back away from his plan to build a wall between the two nations.
"During a whirlwind visit — it was less than three hours from when his jet touched down to when it took off — Trump blazed around in a presidential-style motorcade that included seven SUVs and even more police cars. Local officers blocked off roads, including Interstate 35, for Trump’s entourage."
"The Republican presidential candidate, leading the GOP field in national polls but increasingly under fire from the establishment wing of his party, said repeatedly that he had been told he would be in “great danger” if he visited this town of 236,000 in southern Texas — even though Laredo, which is roughly 96 percent Hispanic, has a significantly lower murder rate than Trump’s home town of New York City. He would not say who had told him that he was at risk"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-makes-a-texas-size-splash-with-visit-to-mexican-border/2015/07/23/277670c8-316b-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
Mexicans aren't just rapists and drug dealers-they're also murderers.
"This is why I'd love a Trump nomination: it'd be honest. His position on immigration absent the rhetoric is the GOP position. Here he sums it up in a nutshell:
"Trump ducked when asked what he would do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be in the United States."
“The first thing is to secure our borders,” he said, “and after that we’ll have plenty of time to talk about it.”
That is the GOP position: let's secure the border first then we'll discuss these other things on your mind.
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