Let’s review: without waiting to be called on, Univision’s Jorge Ramos started asking Donald Trump questions at his news conference. Trump got mad and told Ramos to “go back to Univision” before having his bouncer toss Ramos from the auditorium. One of Trump’s supporters outside the auditorium – even wearing a signature Trump costume and button – got the message loud and clear and told Ramos to “Get out of my country. Get out!”
Here’s the picture. But you can see him much more clearly in the video which you can find embedded in this story.
Now first off, if you watch the video, can anyone identify the supporter in this video? The video is very clear. Maybe he’s just some totally random Trump supporter who happened to be outside the press conference. But my hunch is there’s a bit more to it than that and I bet someone reading this can identify him. If you can, please drop us a line. Click the email link right under the TPM logo at the upper left to send us a note. I really, really would like to know who this person is and whether he has any connection to the Trump campaign other than simply supporting the candidate.
Now for more on the day’s events in the Trump “Get Out of Our Country, Brown Man” Campaign, we go to TPM Reader MM …
Certainly Trump/Ramos and its inevitable metastases have been the political story of the day. But I have a rhetorical question.
How does disrespecting and bouncing Jorge Ramos,the most influential Hispanic man in America, and then inviting him back for a give-and-take, do anything but strengthen Trump’s position?
It’s a trick rhetorical question, of course: l‘affaire Ramos obviously strengthens Trump’s real game. It further dissociates Trump’s supporters from those we might call “reasonable” Republicans, and inflicts a potentially mortal wound on the GOP’s hopes for the 2016 presidential election: precisely as Trump intended. He’s coarse, crude, rude, shallow, tacky, belligerent, repulsive, utterly self-absorbed, utterly unsubtle, a pathological liar, and willfully ignorant in many areas of knowledge that are critical to any viable candidacy for the highest office, but he is not an idiot or a fool, or unable to control his impulses. So the question is what, exactly, does Trump want? What is his goal? He will never occupy the Oval Office and, despite his monstrous, deformed ego, I’m pretty sure he understands that. So what is his real game?
Trump is the active galactic nucleus of the GOP primary campaign, a billion-Gingrich-mass political black hole, sucking everything near him through his event horizon, converting it into deadly radiation that makes him visible from anywhere in the political universe, and sterilizing if not incinerating any other candidate unlucky enough to inhabit his political galaxy.
Today Krugman (in his blog) quotes Corey Robin on conservatism and goes on to say, “It’s really about who’s boss, and making sure that the man in charge stays boss. Trump is admired for putting women and workers in their place, and it doesn’t matter if he covets his neighbor’s wife or demands trade wars. The point is that Trump isn’t a diversion, he’s a revelation, bringing the real motivations of the movement out into the open.”
Trump commits Kinsey’s Mortal Political Sin and violates Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment every time he opens his mouth, twice anathema to any “reasonable” Republican, but everything he says and does and represents is mother’s milk to any modern movement conservative. He is their Kwisatz Haderach, their Muad-Dib. As Frank Herbert said, “I am showing you the superhero syndrome and your own participation in it.”
I never thought I’d say these words, but I’d be interested to know what Cheney is thinking.
