La Opinion (Editorial)
August 18, 2015
Millionaire
Donald Trump is looking more and more like a real presidential
candidate, as he has unveiled a more detailed plan on immigration. If
there were any lingering
doubts about his identification with the GOP ideals, the plan sums up
the more reactionary measures that have dominated the debate in
Congress.
This
is why no one should be surprised about his rising popularity in the
ultra conservative and Tea Party friendly universe. Trump's furious
rhetoric against Mexico and
the undocumented, which catapulted him to the top of the polls among
Republican voters, was put down on paper, including such proposals as
eliminating birthright citizenship, triple the size of the Border
Patrol, defund sanctuary cities, and increase partnership
between local enforcement authorities and U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), among others.
And,
of course, deporting all undocumented immigrants. As a sign of what the
candidate's family values might look like, he said he would not divide
families: He would
just expel all of its members from the U.S. altogether.
An
undeniable virtue of Trump seems to be his sincerity in spelling out
what others think, and identify the feelings of an activist conservative
faction that no rival
wants to offend. The prize to the most boot-licking rival went now to
governor Scott Walker, who said yesterday that his immigration plan is
“very similar” to Trump's written proposal.
Trump's
surprising popularity in the GOP primaries is the big electoral news of
the moment, which attracts all the media attention. But we should not
lose perspective
that this political base is a small part of the electorate. It
dominates legislative districts in low-turnout elections, but it does
not have the numbers to win a national race.
The
big worry for republicans is that Trump took over the populism in which
they have been working for so long. The best example is how the
millionaire is exploiting the
migratory issue. Congress sowed the seed of what Trump is very
skillfully reaping. With this strategy, the millionaire will not win the
election because the average U.S. citizen does not share his views on
immigration, as well as on other ideas. But it has
all the potential to cost the GOP the election.
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