"It's disgusting what's happening to our country," Donald Trump told a crowd of thousands of supporters in Dallas on Monday. And he wasn't even talking about the fact that Donald Trump is leading the polls for a major party's presidential nomination. Nope, Trump was ranting about immigration again:
He told the crowd at the American Airlines Center Monday that the United States is “a dumping ground for the rest of the world.” And he promised Republican leaders he’s just getting started.
The GOP front-runner decried “anchor babies” and gang members among the immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, drawing huge ovations from a rowdy audience. The 20,000-capacity venue was at least three-quarters full for the evening rally.
“You people are suffering,” Trump told the Texans. “I’m in New York, but they’re in New York, too. They’re all over the place.”
"They're all over the place." Yeah, including working
in your hotels. Like I say, something here is disgusting. Just not what Trump thinks it is.
Trump is really good at whipping up white nationalist fervor. The good news is, that's not the only thing he's good at. He's also very effectively hurting the image of the Republican Party among Latinos, and that image was already poor enough that you have to figure the low-hanging fruit had been picked, making Trump's achievement in image-damaging all the more impressive.