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Trump is now inside the tent, pissing everywhere. After years of indulging Trump as long as he was “outside the tent pissing further out,” Trumpism has become a serious problem for the GOP. In the New Republic, Brian Beutler’s analysis, “Why Donald Trump Truly Terrifies Republicans,” explains that Trump is actually a monster of the GOP’s own making. No other Republican or Democratic presidential candidate was mentioned on either program.

Univision devoted six minutes of coverage to Trump’s visit, while Telemundo gave him a total of nine minutes. Republicans fearful of how Trump is hurting the party’s image with the nation’s fast-growing Latino voting population need only play back Thursday night’s broadcasts as proof. While the national newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC covered Trump’s visit to Laredo, Tex., coverage of the GOP presidential candidate dominated the national news broadcasts on Univision and Telemundo. The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe captures the dynamic: While the English-language political press is all over the Trump story, so is Spanish-language media. That single crime has energized hard-line Republican lawmakers who have long peddled the false argument that all illegal immigrants are a criminal menace, and that the best way to erase their threat is by new layers of inflexible policing. Today’s editorial from the New York Times, “The Anti-Immigrant Binge in Congress,” points out that the rhetoric coming from House Republicans is “hard to distinguish from the rantings of Donald Trump, who brought his racist road show to Laredo, Tex., on Thursday.” The editorial begins:Ĭongress is in danger of taking that most cursed of American political disagreements, the debate over illegal immigration, and dragging it farther toward insanity. Bills are being rushed to the floor in the House and Senate i n response to a woman’s senseless killing in San Francisco by an unauthorized immigrant with a long criminal record. Democrats dubbed the measure the “Donald Trump Act” because it took Trump’s offensive comments about Mexicans as “criminals” and “rapists” and translated them into legislative language. Yesterday, House Republicans passed an anti-immigrant bill, mostly along party lines. What a week! Trump takes the pole position in the race for the GOP nomination, Republicans in Congress follow Trump’s lead on immigration, Spanish-language media report on it all, and serious Republicans worry about the impact of these remarkable developments on the party’s future.īelow we highlight three pieces that capture the zeitgeist: today’s lead editorial from the New York Times entitled “The Anti-Immigrant Binge in Congress ” a piece by Ed O’Keefe in today’s Washington Post about Spanish language media’s coverage of Trump and a thought-provoking piece entitled “Why Donald Trump Truly Terrifies Republicans” by the New Republic’s Brian Beutler.