Live from La Farine: : Last Call For Trump's 50-State Southern Strategy: "Greg Sargent finally comes out and says it...
...Donald Trump's new ads in Iowa and New Hampshire are absolutely about driving the white backlash vote into Trump's fold....
Trump has unveiled a riveting new television ad that perfectly sums up Trumpism in all its xenophobic glory.... The ad... has it all. It reiterates his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, and links this directly to the need to combat ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ It also again vows to ‘stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.’ All of this leads up to the grand conclusion, in which Trump himself vows to ‘make America great again.’... Trump’s spot looks very much like the heavily-immigration-themed ads run by California Governor Pete Wilson in the 1990s. Wilson... is widely believed to have driven Latinos away from the California GOP and set it on a path into the demographic wilderness....
Wilson's anti-Latino ads were the beginning of the end of the California GOP. So where is Trump and the national GOP, 20 years later?...
Even if [Trump] doesn’t [win the nomination]... Whither the forces Trump has unleashed? Trump’s candidacy — and... Cruz['s] — is framed around the idea that the way to win the White House is by unleashing the power of white backlash.... By contrast, Marco Rubio’s long-term strategy seems to be framed broadly.... Which will GOP voters choose? We’ll soon find out. And if... Rubio wins... how far he has to go in pandering to the forces Trump and Cruz are unleashing... will also bear watching....
It's looking more and more like a two-man race between Trump and Cruz. The March 1 'Super South' primary could give either one of these goofballs a commanding lead as well.... There's no way Rubio can win the nomination without playing to the same bigots that are powering Trump and Cruz, and currently the folks backing those two represent the majority of GOP primary voters, not just 'some fringe elements'.
