Former Bush Cabinet official: I'm worried about kids that are seeing a different America

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez on Sunday lamented President Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants and minorities, saying it is setting a bad example for younger Americans.

Gutierrez, who served in the George W. Bush administration, downplayed the significance of a restaurant owner in Virginia asking White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave over her defense of Trump’s policy positions.

“I’m sorry that Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a bad day. I’m not worried about Sarah Huckabee Sanders,” Gutierrez said on CNN’s “State of the Union."

“I’m worried about the African-American kid in school who gets harassed by kids who think they have a license to harass because the president says so,” he continued.

“I’m worried about the Hispanic kid, the Hispanic-American citizen, who is harassed in school and gets called a member of MS-13 because the president calls immigrants from Hispanic countries members of MS-13,” he added.

Link to tweet

Trump has faced criticism during his campaign and his presidency for his heated rhetoric about immigrants and minorities. He has referred to some Mexicans as "rapists" and "criminals," suggested weak immigration laws are allowing the MS-13 gang to flourish in the U.S. and called El Salvador, Haiti and African nations "shithole countries."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/393853-former-bush-cabinet-official-im-worried-about-kids-that-are-seeing-a

[hatrack]

1. And you're still a Republican because . . . .

It's OK. We'll wait.`

[BigmanPigman]

2. George Will and Steve Schmidt have broken out of their

GOP induced fog and maybe others will follow. Not getting my hopes up though.

[JHB]

9. They still need to be reminded that they paved the way for Trump.

Trump's base is something that Republicans (conservatives in particular) have built though decades of unrestrained bile against Democrats, and encouraging absolutism on hot-button issues in order to break up the New Deal coalition.

They've spend the last quarter century treating Democratic presidents as illegitimate and hopelessly corrupt, painting every action as antithetical to common decency. "the enemy of normal Americans", as Newt Gingrich put it. They rewarded him by making him Speaker of the House.

Will and Schmidt didn't break then. They didn't break through 20 years of ever-more-extreme talk of that type.

Good on them for breaking, but let's be clear that such kudos are a "participated" trophy. The writing was on the wall a long time ago, and it's only recently they've realized there is no amount of whitewash it won't seep trough.

[RoBear]

10. Right...

If they comment to me about Trump's assholery, I plan to respond: "YOU VOTED FOR HIM? YOU OWN THIS!"

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. In one way, for us at least, it would be satisfying to see more traditional Republicans leave.

And say they are now Democrats.

But for the long game, we know that the Republican party will not dissolve, despite what some pine for. There will always be a party for the rich, for the owners, for those that have no scruples about quid pro quo. These are the moderates now in the R party who will at least stop at that description. Those simply compromised assholes that cater to the wealthiest in their constituency for financial and political favors.

Those are the "good" Republicans. We need them to speak out against downright fascism taking over. At least a few Republican voters will respect more the message if it is delivered from the mouth of someone that still calls themselves a Republican.

[sandensea]

6. +1

If Señor Gutiérrez thinks Trump's deplorables wouldn't deport him in a flash just beacause he happens to be white, wealthy, and used to work for Kellogg's, he's got another thing coming.

Anyone who's lived around Trump voters for at least a few years could tell him that if there's anything they hate more than a Hispanic immigrant, it's one with money.

They resent it to death.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Every white parent should be asked how Trump is a good role model for their children.

Most children notice things they may not fully understand, but they also learn lessons. Trump is teaching children that it’s okay to attack women, people from other countries are murderers and rapists, brown and black people are inferior to white people, it’s okay to cheat other people, it’s okay to lie and demand constant praise and adulation, and it’s okay to break the law if you’re white and rich. What a sad excuse for a human being.

[Nonhlanhla]

7. I am very open with my child about Trump

She knows why we don't agree with him, and we use his "example" to talk about how we should treat others (in other words, how we should not treat others the way Trump treats others). So I guess he is a negative role model of sorts, haha!

[Lonestarblue]

8. Good way to turn his misbehavior into something positive!

I had not realized how much kids pick up until a few months ago the young son of a friend came home visibly concerned and asked his mom if they could move to Canada to get away from Trump. This is in a household where neither parents nor kids watch TV news, but the kids do have access to the Internet for short periods of time since they’re still young, and of course they hear their peers at school making comments about Trump.

[0rganism]

5. this is the America he helped build

W's bunch paved the way for the atrocities we're witnessing. they incubated the alt-right, they let it flourish in the shelter of dozens of carefully tailored euphemisms, now it has come to fruition and the euphemisms are being discarded and he's oh-so shocked at what the nation is becoming under alt-right leadership. congratulations Carlos, your baby boy has become quite the strapping young lad.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. It started before that

Daddy Bush had Lee Atwater and Floyd Brown working for his campaign. Both played the race card.

[0rganism]

12. and he helped

and now, we get to reap the harvest planted by Nixon, Bush, Atwater, and Reagan.