Steve Gilliard makes some good points regarding the big illegal (and legal) immigrant marches lately (dang it - I was in Phoenix for the last big march, but I missed it because my relatives and art friends sandbagged me with dilatory tactics to keep me out of trouble, like serving Virgil's Root Beer - the best root beer ever - and I simply ran out of time):
Hispanics inclined to support the GOP now see them as a group of racists. All because the GOP framed the immigration problem as one with brown people and not with bad laws and ineffective enforcement.
Once it became a matter of talk about not loving the US and destroying the culture, especially when so many Hispanics are serving in combat, was destined to turn them against the GOP. The GOP had made serious inroads into the Hispanic community outside California, who had been radicalized by Prop 187 which passed and then died in courts, until this.
What you basically have is the revolt of the servant class. All those Republiklans calling for the Army on the border and walls think the people who serve them will remain mute. And it isn't just the immigrants, either, it's the small business owners, the civil servants, the panoply of people who make a community work. They're all supposed to bow before the anger of the white ruling class and arm the border.
God forbid that they take pride in their heritage and petition the government for a redress of grievances. They should be rounded up.
Only problem, most of the people marching are as American as the Republiklans, and plan on voting to show that.
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