Three years ago, high-level Republicans declared that after losing the popular vote in five of the past six elections, the party needed to appeal more to Hispanics to win the presidency. Immigration was a threshold issue. …
Today, however, this notion has been turned upside down. …
More Republican politicians, along with some conservative commentators and strategists, now say Trump’s hard line is good politics because it taps into deep cultural, economic and security fears. CONT.
Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg View