Immigrant bashing in a state with a million immigrants, half of whom are naturalized and eligible voters, just seems like gross political incompetence.
That’s the beauty of it (from the Republican perspective, at least). You’re not bashing immigrants; you’re bashing those immigrants. Any given specific immigrant can say “Well, I know my ethnic group doesn’t eat pets, so obviously they’re referring to those other despicable people”.
No matter who you are, there’s always someone else out there to hate.
Also, one of the things that Democrats have had to learn from Trump to their consternation is that bashing recent immigrants from a country or set of countries doesn’t necessarily alienate Americans descended from earlier immigrants from those countries.
The usual attitude is “They should have to go through the process like we did”. Which neglects to realize that there is no process. The only way that Pedro the Mexican farm worker can immigrate legally is to immigrate illegally, and hope for an amnesty.
I think he recognizes her as beautiful, could even have been in one of his pageants, and he doesn’t know what to do with those feelings. She intimidates him, which is why he avoids eye contact and handshakes at the debate. His job is to hate her, he believes, and he’s just doing his job, but he’s conflicted. Yesterday he had to look at her up close and he was disarmed.
Nope; I recognize that the “Eat Less Kittens” sign is a play on Chick-fil-A’s long-running “Eat Mor Chikin” signs, in which the top line is made to look like it was painted (awkwardly) by cows.
And, for that matter, the cursive “Vote Republican” is similar to the Chick-fil-A logo.
I see what you mean, but the GOP billboard lettering is neater, more professional-looking. Now, maybe that’s just because cats are tidy critters, but I still think there’s a sly wink at the old canard about Chinese restaurants serving cat.
FWIW, the canard I’d long heard was about dogs, not cats.
Regardless, I think the kittens sign is clearly meant to evoke the Chick-fil-A signs, which are very common in the South, which is largely “red states.”