THE WASHINGTON POST - July 17, 2015
William H. Frey, a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution and a population studies professor at the
University of Michigan, is the author of “Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America.”
He
may not have a shot at becoming president, but Donald Trump has already
succeeded in uniting America — one nation, awash in snark. Pundits from
the left and the right have declared open season on the Donald. As
longtime Democratic strategist Paul Begala told The Washington Post,
“I am a person of faith — and the Donald’s entry into this race can
only be attributed to the fact that the good Lord is a Democrat with a
sense of humor.” Or, as conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said
on Fox News: “This is the strongest field of Republican candidates in
35 years. You could pick a dozen of them at random and have the
strongest Cabinet America’s had in our lifetime, and instead all of our
time is spent discussing this rodeo clown.”
But writing Trump
off is dangerous. The billionaire may play the buffoon, but he is an
important one — one whom Americans appear to adore. A USA Today-Suffolk
University poll
released Tuesday shows him leading all Republican presidential
hopefuls. And while establishment candidates in both parties might want
to ignore him, or express a milder version of his anti-immigration
opinions, an enormous number of voters clearly like his views.
Pretending they don’t allows Trump and other immigration firebrands,
such as Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz, to resuscitate a century-old
nativism that could stick around beyond this election. Given that the
United States is undergoing a demographic diversity explosion, our workforce — our very future — is tied to people Trump is rallying support against.READ MORE...
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