Posted on 03/07/2016 5:39:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Trump has had an ongoing war of words with former Mexican president Vicente Fox over who will pay for a new 1,000 mile long border wall. Now the current president of Mexico is weighing in and comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini. From the AP:
Asked about Trump, Pena Nieto complained to the Excelsior newspaper about “these strident expressions that seek to propose very simple solutions” and said that sort of language has led to “very fateful scenes in the history of humanity.”“That’s the way Mussolini arrived and the way Hitler arrived,” Pena Nieto said. Pena Nieto until now had avoided direct comments on Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the two countries’ borders.
Nieto went on to add that there was, “no scenario” in which his country would pay for a border wall.
There are two strains to the politics of this in the near term. On one hand, having another critic, even a sitting president, attack Trump and claim Mexico won’t build his wall will surely make it that much more exciting when he trots out his trusty, “and Mexico will pay for it,” line at the next big rally. Trump’s supporters like that he is confrontational so this is unlikely to hurt him in the short term. In fact, Trump can probably spin this into an over-reaction to his populist proposal.
On the other hand, part of Trump’s appeal is that he’s a great deal maker who promises to make better deals on behalf of the country. Having the current president of Mexico veto your proposal before you are even elected seems like a sign that Trump’s deal-making strategy on the border wall needs some fine tuning. Can he spin this rejection by the person he would need to broker his #1 priority with as a win for his business acumen? At what point does that begin to sound dubious to his supporters?
In the longer term, the anti-Trump ads created by Hillary Clinton really write themselves. Whether that will have an impact on Trump’s standing with the electorate probably depends on how Americans are feeling about immigration come November. A new survey by A.T. Kearney, results of which were published by Bloomberg, finds that Americans appear to be very unhappy about immigration at this moment. In fact, they believe it puts the United States’ future prospects in jeopardy:
Sixty-one percent of Americans agree that “continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States,” according to a new poll commissioned by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney that revealed pessimism across a wide range of issues…A belief that immigration jeopardizes the U.S. was common across age groups, although highest among baby boomers (65 percent) and lowest among millennials (55 percent). By education, it was highest among those with just a high school education or some college (65 percent), and by region it was highest in the South, including Texas (66 percent).
Other polls asking similar (but not identical) questions have given very different results. A Pew survey last year found a majority of respondents saying they felt immigration strengthened the U.S. If the populist feeling toward immigration really is as strong as A.T. Kearney’s survey suggests, it seems there are a lot of Americans ready for a more aggressive approach to dealing with the border and the President of Mexico.
Wonder where the Mexicans are getting their talking points?
Trump should make a commercial showing the Mexican Government depicted as a cluster of parasites that eventually consume their host.
We need another Winfield Scott to deliver a few million rounds of Yankee Justice south of the border.
This is getting good. These pandered-to Mexicans are doing back flips at the thought of having to pay for their primary export...poverty and crime. What goes around, comes around.
And the gang of Eight would just feed you more of it.
Trump should air a commercial on Mexican TV showing the wealth of their leadership vs the poverty of the brown folks. See how fast they shut their mouths.
I compare the Ex Mexican President with El Chapo
How clever. They must have been down at the border passing out talking TEDdy bears with Ted and Glenn Beck.
You pull the string and it has Beck’s voice saying “Trump is a Nazi”.
That’s cool. Trump wont be Hitler for blue collar white male veterans who don’t swear allegiance to the globalist agenda. So I guess ill be there, out in my backyard grilling a steak, waving at the trains as they roll by.
. That is part of the direct article AP. Not the entire article
Mexico, the country that has as its only claim to fame the notoriety that its women corrupt the morals of farm animals.
Fox was a Mexican President - epitome of corruption.
Those two need Teddy Bears.
Never mind I found it
Winfield Scott (1786–1866)
Winfield Scott was a hero of the Mexican War (1846–1848), the last Whig Party candidate for U.S. president, and commanding general of the United States Army at the start of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" for his equal love of discipline and pomp, Scott by 1861 had served in the military for more than fifty years and under fourteen U.S. presidents. He had been severely wounded in battle, avoided several wars with his diplomatic skills, and commanded the army that conquered Mexico City in 1847, all of which made him the most admired and famous soldier in America. Less well known is the fact that Scott was convicted by court-martial for conduct unbecoming an officer, was investigated by a court of inquiry, once was accused of treason, and several times offered his resignation from the army. When the Civil War began, the Dinwiddie County native remained loyal to the Union, and while age had so reduced his once-towering frame that he could no longer even mount a horse, his ego and intellect were still intact. Scott's Anaconda Plan for winning the war proved to be prescient but politically out of step, and he eventually lost control of the army to George B. McClellan. He soon retired, published a two-volume memoir in 1864, and died in 1866.
You don’t really think Mexico would air it?
Remember the Cristeros!!!!
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