Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:07 pm
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is running for his party’s presidential nomination, was trying to lead Republicans out of the hate-filled rhetorical quicksand that has propelled “wrecking ball” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the top of the polls, when he inadvertently admitted on CNN’s State of the Union that what Trump was doing wrong was telling Hispanics “exactly what we think of you”.
This, Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash he would have no part of.
Graham also called Donald Trump a “wrecking ball” for the GOP with Hispanics and said that they can’t win a national election without Hispanics, so shut up Donald. “I think he’s a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican Party with the Hispanic community. And we need to push back.”
Watch here:
Senator Graham is concerned because even he can see that calling illegal immigrants rapists is not the way to get the Latino vote.
Transcript from CNN:
Well, I’m very worried about where we’re headed as a party. I don’t think this is the way to get the Latino vote. At the end of the day, this is a defining moment for the Republican Party.
Graham sounded almost like a Democrat having to deal with House Republicans here, having to respond to the accusations of a backseat driver who has never actually done anything as an elected official to solve problems and has no idea what he’s talking about:
There’s a lot of frustration with broken borders. I get that. I have been trying to fix the border for 10 years. I would double the Border Patrol, triple the number of drones. All the hijackers who attacked — attacked us on 9/11 were visa overstays. So it’s more than just the border. You have got to control your visa program.
A recap of the Donald’s electoral errors in publicizing the Republican Party’s platform:
But, as to Donald Trump, he has said, openly, repeatedly, that he believes that most illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists, and there may be a few among them that are decent people. After 10 years of working on illegal immigration, I have come to conclude that most illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking people, and some are criminals.
This is a defining moment for the Republican Party. We need to reject this. To all the candidates who think that Donald Trump is telling the truth, I think you have lost your way.
Somehow, Sen. Graham thinks the Republican party still has moral authority, even after lying about WMD and then spending the next seven years trolling the guy who is trying to fix their epic clustermuck:
As to the Republican Party, if we do not reject this way of thinking clearly, without any ambiguity, we will have lost our way. We will have lost the moral authority, in my view, to govern this great nation. And I hope we will reject this kind of thinking.
Bash was having none of it, because she knows the Republican Party built the base that loves Trump’s racism, “But how do you do that? Look, he talked about the fact that he is awakening a new silent majority. And the fact is that, when he talks about building a wall and sending undocumented immigrants back to Mexico, that has a lot of appeal with a lot of the people in your party. And you know that.”
Sen. Graham clarified that the problem is that not all illegal immigrants are criminals and by saying this, Trump is “telling the Hispanic community…. exactly what we think of you.” I would presume he didn’t mean that if it weren’t a) true, and b) if Bash hadn’t just called him out on it, and c) if he hadn’t admitted that he was objecting because this is not how to get Latinos to vote Republican — none of which is actually an objection based on the reality that Republicans built this mess on purpose, as an extension of their Southern Strategy.
Well, I can tell you the majority of my party wants to secure the border, control who gets a job. They come here to work.
What happened in San Francisco is appalling. It’s a good example of why you need to fix the system. But to say that all the 11 million illegal immigrants for the most part are rapists and drug dealers is not only offensive at every level. You’re telling the Hispanic community, who are friends, neighbors, and relatives of the illegal immigrant population, exactly what we think of you.
And I’m not going to be part of that.
And with visions of Miley Cyrus dancing in his head, Graham invoked “wrecking ball” to denounce Donald Trump:
What I think he’s doing is being a demagogue. I think he’s uninformed about the situation regarding the illegal immigrant population. What happened in San Francisco is appalling. But it does not represent the 11 million. And I think he’s hijacked the debate. I think he’s a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican Party with the Hispanic community. And we need to push back.
Graham is right, Donald Trump is a wrecking ball for the Republican Party, because he is telling everyone exactly what the Republican Party is all about. For years the GOP has been fomenting hatred against the “other” as a get out the vote tactic. Their base knows it and responds to it.
Now, thanks to Donald Trump, the public knows it. If that is a problem, the Republican Party needs to do more than silence Donald Trump.
If only House Republicans had been able to do something on immigration. But they couldn’t — precisely because they were busy pandering to the people who love Donald Trump for calling illegal immigrants drug dealers and rapists.
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