I have been getting most of my news for more than 15 years now by cruising the net, rather than relying on newspapers. I remember reading Matt Yglesias in those very early days, and he always seemed like a guy who had his head screwed on right. Not so much, anymore, at least judging by something I read today. Maybe this is just some sloppy thinking on his part, which he’d delete if given a second chance.
Trump is winning because he understands that the 2016 race is about the very definition of America itself. For candidates like Rubio — following the pace set by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — it’s about embracing a new, more diverse, more tolerant country. For Trumpers, it’s precisely the opposite. They want to put the Obama genie back in the bottle and fight vigorously for the traditional notion of Americanness, at home and abroad, even if it means jettisoning some of the GOP donor class’s ideological bugaboos.
via Vox (Emphasis added)
What? In what way is Rubio “embracing a new, more diverse, more tolerant country”? He was a tea party darling when he got elected, and that set of bigoted puppets is not about tolerance or diversity. Let us count the people that he hates. That would be immigrants (despite a long abandoned fling at cooperating on immigration reform), gays, women who want to control their own bodies, voters (and we all know what voters he’s thinking about), and workers. Who have I missed? Rubio is not opposing Donald Trump by drawing a humanitarian contrast between his positions and Trump’s; he’s trying to prove that he can deliver the hate better, sometimes arguing that he got there first.
There is no Republican candidate that is embracing tolerance. Tolerance doesn’t sell in the GOP, and it hasn’t since Nixon went with his Southern Strategy. We all know that the press has accused both sides of those bad things, you know, obstruction, partisanship, etc., when only one side is guilty. We really must draw the line at attempts to claim that both sides are trying to embrace the better angels of their nature, if only the big bad Donald didn’t stand in their way. The Republican Party does not do tolerance. It does not like diversity. It is the party of hate; Donald Trump is proving that, and Rubio is doing nothing more than claiming that he can deliver the goods better than the Donald.
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