Posted on 07/17/2015 11:14:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You might think that the recent poll showing Donald Trump spiking among Republicans is about Donald Trump. It is not. It is about the Republican Party and its very dark soul when it comes to immigration. The rank and file didn’t much care for Trump as recently as May. It swooned this month when it discovered he’s a bigot.
In May, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65 percent of Republicans saw Trump unfavorably. In their relative and blissful ignorance, these Republicans had it about right. But then Trump declared his candidacy in a frothing statement about Mexican rapists, and the GOP’s heart started to pound. The numbers got reversed. All of a sudden only 40 percent of them view him unfavorably. The rest — about 60 percent — can hardly quiet their hearts.
This stunning turnabout — this depressing and somewhat scary endorsement of frustration, fear and old-fashioned hate — is sure to be noticed by the other GOP candidates. Trump is now up in Jeb Bush territory — Jeb the moderate conservative, Jeb the realist on immigration, Jeb the scion of all those Walker’s Point Bushes and Jeb the husband of a Mexican woman. He cannot take on Trump by becoming more like him.
The very many others are not so constrained, and it is the nature of politics to move where the votes are. Moderation on immigration is, as Newt Gingrich found out in 2011, a loser in the GOP. What Trump is showing is not just that a hard line on illegal immigration pays off, but it pays off big if the overall message contains, like a rock in a snowball, a core of anger. As The Donald himself knows, his text is just a piece of his message. More important is his demeanor....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Cohen is a smear mongering piece of filth.
“a core of anger”
Im angry about lots of stuff and rightfully so.
the “progressives” dont personally acknowledge let alone admit their rage inspired ENVY..
to “HECK” with em all
Why is it not racist to have mostly illegal Mexicans come in and bypass the legal way, meanwhile the rest get almost no access.
“Immigration”. They always make sure to call criminal foreign invasion that word don’t they. They went from “illegal immigrants” to “undocumented immigrants” then “undocumented workers” now they just flat out call them “immigrants”.
It isn’t immigration. It’s trespassing and unlawful ocupation/taking.
An invasion doesn’t necessarily require men under arms.
Being for national sovereignty, the rule of law and valuing our citizenship makes us bigots?
The Ministry Of Propaganda has been trying to guilt Americans into surrendering their country for years.
It has not worked.
70% of the citizens want the laws enforced and the borders secured.
It’s our country.
We do not have to let in everyone who wants in.
They are not undocumented and they are not immigrants.
They are illegal aliens.
They usually have documents in multiple names.
Fraudulent documents.
They are fraudulently documented foreigners.
They are not immigrants. To call them that is an insult to everyone who applied to be an American, waited their turn, learned the language, paid their fees and complied with the laws.
¡Yeb! wants to turn the U.S.A. into North Mexico
The Ministry Of Propaganda wants to help him
The widespread anger would not exist unless it was true.
The fact that Cohen is talking about means to has traction. When was the last time Cohen talked about Lyndon Larouche opinions on the Queen of England?
If a drunk driving illegal alien ever crashes into Richard Cohen’s car, I will be playing the world’s smallest violin.
Dark soul = enforcing the law.
Hear that America?
...call the Compost, ask them if they would pick up the tab on healthcare/housing/incarceration/other expenses personally?
...then watch the bleeding heart go into cardiac arrest.
The racist nativist xenophobic smear died long ago.
We’re deafened by the name calling hate mongers like This journo bought and paid for by the government.
Screw them. They’re just speaking to the most rabid leftists that are their core readers.
Poor Richard can't understand that the Light of Truth will reveal the way out of the darkness.
Speaking of being lost in the darkness, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Are you paying attention, Richard?
Part of why I like him.
How about this paragraph? What changed? RFK was assassinated. So is this one for the suggestion box? Is there another way to read this?
Surely, Trump’s number will fall. For a time back in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy polled well among the same people who also favored George C. Wallace, the belligerent racist. These voters were simply embracing what they thought were anti-establishment candidates, and since RFK was challenging President Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic nomination, he was, by definition, an insurgent. That soon changed.
I saw RFK and his family at Disneyland a day or two before he was killed. Shook his hand. Those were some weird times.
Since we’re going to be racist xenophobe bigots no matter what we do, we might as well be the best racist xenophobe bigots we can be, in the most powerful redneck capitalist white devil Republic the world has ever known.
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