Posted on 07/19/2015 8:01:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump’s insult of John McCain’s war record on Saturday has led to nearly universal condemnation from his Republican primary adversaries. More importantly, it might also be the well-anticipated moment when Trump’s popularity in the GOP race comes crashing down. Whatever happens next in the campaign, though, it’s fair to say that the damage to Trump’s national personal standing and miniature media empire has already been done. That happened the instant he entered the race by attacking Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists,” and it happened thanks largely to an unprecedented grassroots response by Latino-Americans, Latino immigrants, and the broader Latino world. Whether or not Trump’s poll numbers return to earth because of the McCain flap, Trump’s entertainment properties don’t ever seem likely to recover from the damage caused by the united Latino response to his blatant xenophobia.
Trump’s remarks weren’t the first time Trump or a high-profile politician had made racist comments about Latinos. Trump himself has blamed crime on blacks and Hispanics before. But this time Latinos were quicker to unite and more effective to protest than ever before. Trump’s outsized personality probably had something to do with the passion of the response. But this became a watershed moment for the Hispanic community mostly because of how the outrage was manifested through social media, and how Hispanic mainstream media reacted to this discontent.
In Latin America, politicians and celebrities channeled Hispanics’ collective indignation....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Slate and Huffington Post etc. have no idea what Trump has tapped into.
LOL. Dream on, Slate.
Cruz is standing behind Trump. All I really need to know...
Slate, a leftist publication, is engaging in wishful thinking. Cognative dissonance applies when Trumps numbers increase by weeks end.
Is that the Mexican equivalent of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?
I hope Trump sues them all for slander.
No. I'm pretty sure he pretty much confined it to those being sent here by the Mexican government.
But then, you haven't been subject to the sex trafficking that those illegals have been engaging in so you wouldn't understand.
Trump is a hump.
The proverbial political fraud.
Mexican immigrants
Illegal aliens are not immigrants.
Immigrants are people who apply to be Americans, wait their turn, pay their fees, learn the language ad comply with the laws.
Trump wasn’t talking about immigrants, he was talking about illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens break in and ignore all the laws.
The proverbial political fraud.
Huckster is that
“Hispanics collective indignation”
They trespass and break our laws, and they’re ‘indignant’ that Trump is polling #1 with Americans?
Bite my crank, Slate, Juliana.
“but whenever he goes out....
the people always shout...
I’m not sure what’s going on, it appears any Liberal’s Head will explode if they utter the word “Illegal”.
Sounds like an immigration law firm.
I think they are wrong
Fun fact: Latin America and the Caribbean is home to roughly 9% of the global population but accounts for over 30% of the world’s homicides.
Hucksters don’t tear down the wall of PC with reckless abandon. Can you imagine the number of death threats the Donald must be getting? He is brave.
Not interested in the view from the gay bar.
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