When folks like Lawrence O'Donnell just sniff over Trump personally it misses the point. I've always liked Lawrence but he's simply been wrong about everything in this election season so far.
"If you want to get a sense of how Democrats hope to use the rise of Donald Trump to damage the GOP among Latinos — a project that will probably continue for many months, deep into 2016 — take a look at this new ad from the Hillary Clinton-allied Super PAC Priorities USA"
“Seventeen Republicans are running for president — with one message for immigrant families,” the ad intones. It then airs footage of Donald Trump calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and calling for mass deportations; Jeb Bush defending his use of the term “anchor babies”; and Scott Walker seeming to agree that we should end birthright citizenship.
“This is the Republican Party,” the ad concludes. All of this rhetoric from the GOP Presidential candidates is helpfully translated into Spanish text that spools forth on the screen.
Maggie Haberman reports that the ad will start airing in states with large Latino populations, such as Florida, Colorado, and Nevada."
"Here’s why this is so significant: It shows that Democrats are not taking for granted the durability of their recent gains among Latinos. As I reported the other day, some Democrats worry that those gains could prove fleeting, particularly if Jeb Bush (who is fluent in Spanish, has a Mexican wife and Latino American children, and could credibly make a cultural appeal to Latino voters) ends up as GOP nominee. Some have hoped for a more aggressive effort to seize on the astonishingly fortuitous arrival (for this purpose, anyway) of Donald Trump to try to inflict as much damage on the GOP brand among Latinos as possible. The new ad perhaps suggests we may see a new level of activity along these lines."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/08/27/morning-plum-how-democrats-will-use-donald-trump-to-try-to-destroy-gop-among-latinos/
The GOP would prefer Jeb-or if not him then Rubio-because then they could lull Latinos via biography. Rubio in particular is the biography candidate-ie, Don't look at my policies look at my personal biography, I'm just like you!
But what is Rubio running on? Securing the border. Some liberals are now saying they're seriously scared of what would happen if Trump won. I worry more what would happen if Jeb or Rubio won.
Those guys are much better at hiding the bigotry of the GOP. So the good news is the Dems' understand this:
"The GOP has given Democrats the raw material, if used properly, to potentially take the Hispanic vote off the table in 2016,” Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg tells me. “These adds signal that Dems understand they can dig the hole so deep for the GOP with Hispanics now that they will never get out no matter who the nominee is in 2016.”
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/joe-biden-as-rush-limbaugh-candidate.html
It's not enough to just deride and decry Trump and then praise Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as fine statesmen on immigration.
No they are just as objectively anti immigration as the rest of the party. Remember Rubio has since repudiated his own Senate immigration bill. Jeb now defends the use of anchor baby. The record shows that even Republicans who know better will always put partisanship over what's right every time.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/on-trump-and-jorge-ramos.html
For me I'm more scared of Jeb or Rubio than Trump. The only thing Jeb is clear about is that he wants to 'make the border secure'-so would he agree with Trump building a fence?
No Republican will do anything but continue Trumpism-ie, further crackdown on Latino immigration. Thankfully, Hillary's Super Pac seems to get that:
“Seventeen Republicans are running for president — with one message for immigrant families,” the ad intones. It then airs footage of Donald Trump calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and calling for mass deportations; Jeb Bush defending his use of the term “anchor babies”; and Scott Walker seeming to agree that we should end birthright citizenship.
“This is the Republican Party,” the ad concludes. All of this rhetoric from the GOP Presidential candidates is helpfully translated into Spanish text that spools forth on the screen.
Maggie Haberman reports that the ad will start airing in states with large Latino populations, such as Florida, Colorado, and Nevada."
"Here’s why this is so significant: It shows that Democrats are not taking for granted the durability of their recent gains among Latinos. As I reported the other day, some Democrats worry that those gains could prove fleeting, particularly if Jeb Bush (who is fluent in Spanish, has a Mexican wife and Latino American children, and could credibly make a cultural appeal to Latino voters) ends up as GOP nominee. Some have hoped for a more aggressive effort to seize on the astonishingly fortuitous arrival (for this purpose, anyway) of Donald Trump to try to inflict as much damage on the GOP brand among Latinos as possible. The new ad perhaps suggests we may see a new level of activity along these lines."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/08/27/morning-plum-how-democrats-will-use-donald-trump-to-try-to-destroy-gop-among-latinos/
The GOP would prefer Jeb-or if not him then Rubio-because then they could lull Latinos via biography. Rubio in particular is the biography candidate-ie, Don't look at my policies look at my personal biography, I'm just like you!
But what is Rubio running on? Securing the border. Some liberals are now saying they're seriously scared of what would happen if Trump won. I worry more what would happen if Jeb or Rubio won.
Those guys are much better at hiding the bigotry of the GOP. So the good news is the Dems' understand this:
"The GOP has given Democrats the raw material, if used properly, to potentially take the Hispanic vote off the table in 2016,” Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg tells me. “These adds signal that Dems understand they can dig the hole so deep for the GOP with Hispanics now that they will never get out no matter who the nominee is in 2016.”
Exactly. Latinos should fear not Trump but the Republican party. If they are in power then not just illegal Latino immigrants but legal immigrants have great reason for fear.
Krugman today:
ReplyDelete"The point is that Trump isn’t a diversion, he’s a revelation, bringing the real motivations of the movement out into the open."
Yes, Krugman gets it.
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