New York Magazine (Opinion)
By Jonathan Chait
August 31, 2015
Donald
Trump created an ad on his Instagram account that attacks Jeb Bush for
not hating undocumented immigrants. “Yes, they broke the law, but it’s
not a felony. It’s
an act of love,” Bush is seen saying. The ad juxtaposes Bush with
images of undocumented immigrants who committed murder.
There
are a few ways Bush could respond to this. He could point out that
Trump’s ad is viciously dishonest. Bush was correctly saying that
breaking immigration law is
not a felony. He was not denying that murder is a felony. Better still,
Bush could point out the sick undertones of conflating anybody who
crossed the border illegally in order to give their children a better
life — a choice many Americans would make had we
not enjoyed the good fortune to be born here — with murderers.
Instead Bush hits back at Trump by calling him … liberal:
"While
Donald Trump was still supporting liberal, soft-on-crime politicians,
Jeb Bush accumulated an eight-year record of cracking down on violent
criminals as governor
of Florida. Mr. Trump's immigration plan is not conservative, would
violate the constitution and cost hundreds of billions of dollars, which
he will likely attempt to pay for through massive tax hikes," said Bush
spokeswoman Kristy Campbell in an email.
So
the only response to this kind of crude, dishonest nativism is to get
to your opponent’s right? Nice party you’ve got here, Republicans.
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