Never Trumpers have ONE JOB: explain to the wingnuts that Trump is an existential threat.
by digby
These goddamn Never Trumpers really and truly do believe they can dictate to the Democratic Party what policies they can have and how they are allowed to appeal to their own voters. In fact, what they seem to be saying is that the only way to win is to treat their own base like shit and kiss the asses of Republicans.
Implicit in this is the threat that they will vote for the man they consider an existential threat to democracy unless Democrats turn into Jeb Bush, and I mean right now. Oh wait, Jeb Bush was too liberal too. He spoke Spanish all the time. In fact, he was even married to a Latina immigrant.
Here's Steve M on alleged Never Trumper Bret Stephens:
Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, and Joaquin Castro spoke Spanish in the first Democratic presidential debate this week. The response from Bret Stephens: Speak English or die.
Amigos demócratas,
Si ustedes siguen así, van a perder las elecciones. Y lo merecerán.
Translation for the linguistically benighted: “Democratic friends, if you go on like this, you’re going to lose the elections. And you’ll deserve it.”
Channeling Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson, Stephens continues, decribing the Democrats as
a party that makes too many Americans feel like strangers in their own country. A party that puts more of its faith, and invests most of its efforts, in them instead of us.
And who exactly are "they" and "we"?
They speak Spanish. We don’t.
Yes, it's horrible when candidates speak Spanish in debates. Regular Americans are morally offended by it, and it instantly seals a candidate's electoral doom. No Republican would ever do such a thing, and any Republican who did would lose the party's nomination instantly....
Oh right. It isn't just Jebbie:
Steve M found a number of videos of GWB speaking Spanish. That wasn't always a crime in the GOP> In fact, they once believed that the Latinx vote was something worth fighting for. Now not so much.
I have news for them. The Democrats tried to be more like Republicans. The Sistah Soljah's their base to death. Over and over and over again. For a couple of decades. Now we have Donald Trump.
So please, do something useful and spend the next 16 months explaining to your fellow Republicans why it's more important for them to save the country than it is to worry about candidates speaking Spanish.
That's your job now. Ambassador to the wingnuts. Make them understand. YOU bring them over to the light.
If you keep hectoring the Democrats instead, validating this idiotic premise that they are the problem, we'll know your objections to Trumpism have been shallow and stupid and in the end, you'll go along with the authoritarian program. I'm pretty sure I know the answer.
