It took Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus a bit to come up with a response to Donald Trump's Constitution-punching notion that we should bar all Muslims from entering America, even American Muslims traveling abroad. But Reince Priebus is ostensibly in charge of keeping the Republican Party respectable-looking—no matter how many candidates tear the drapes and vomit on the sofas, so he's got to come out against this thing that would quite clearly be un-Constitutional and has people throwing around words like fascism. Give him hell, Reince:
"I don't agree," Priebus said.
Take that! Have at you, Donald Trump, and so forth. Not often does Priebus lambast a fellow Republican with such blunt talk.
"We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values."
All right, so we've found the line. We can ban war refugees fleeing ISIS from entering the country—that's fine. Oh, and we can still torture. But suggest that we strip Muslim Americans of their rights of travel and return while implementing a government-mandated religious test that blocks all other visitors, that will get you a very stern I don't agree, followed by Standard Talking Point Number 12 and Sub-Point Invocation F-7.
I don't know if Donald Trump can recover from such strong language. He has been officially not agreed with on the racist, xenophobic, not-Constitutional, government-required religious test idea.
Unless he gains the nomination, of course. If that happens, and Donald Trump gives a blistering acceptance speech at the Republican convention going that far and farther, Reince Priebus will suddenly be completely on board with it. He's got to make sure the Republican Party keeps looking respectable, after all.
