They know they cannot win without Hispanics and they have effectively turned off Hispanics to their party with Donald Trump. I predict that the presidency will not be decided in the general election the presidency will be decided in the Democratic primary because with the way the GOP has insulted so many groups from Latinos, Asians, African Americans, to Muslims I highly doubt the GOP can actually win the general election.

Guess we shall see.

then this country is screwed beyond belief. If anyone of the current clowns took office they would make George W. Bush look like FDR and that is scary as hell. I cannot even begin imagine the horrors they would unleash if they had full power....probably the end of Social Security and Medicare....possibly attempting to deport anyone who isn't a rich white person....possibly starting 3 more wars probably with Iran, Russia, and North Korea for all we know. That is what my imagination is leading me to what they may try to do and I don't like it.

They will grab anything they can reach.

immigration which is their ultimate goal. They have never liked diversity, multiculturalism and minorities in general. And their personal dislike of them is aggravated by the effect of immigration on their prospects for winning elections.

Republicans have focused on illegal immigration for years since legal immigration has historically been quite popular. By constantly linking 'immigration' to 'illegal' and 'bad', their nativist faction thinks they can build up public support to go after legal immigration in the longer run.

It is similar to their strategies on welfare and public education. First you spend years discrediting welfare with complaints about 'welfare queens'. Then conservatives can go after the safety net as a whole once 'welfare' is discredited. They spent years discrediting public education with complaints about "failing schools" and "teacher unions". Then they go after public schools and come up with charter schools and vouchers for private schools.

They are smart enough (unfortunately) to know that they have overturning popular programs and policies requires that they first pursue a long-term program to discredit aspects of those policies. After years of hearing of conservative PR efforts to show how "bad" certain aspects of "welfare", "public education" and "immigration" are, the stage set to go after the right to go after the larger liberal policy.