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....
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Who cares what Trump is? What he is doing is what is important at the moment. He is altering the battlefield. The enemedia is fighting back.
Right - next we will be called on to defend Kerry’s service record to make thing right for him. McCain has my gratitude and honor for being in the service and in harms way, but the reality of his Government record tempers any urges to defend his sorry butt.
Yep! Yeb!
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