And there it is from Ruben Navarrette, in USA Today two days ago, saying Beto is a cultural appropriator
. . . Latinos . . . refuse to go loco for Beto. They’re concerned that Robert Francis O’Rourke, 46, who on Thursday joined an already-crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls, is trying to put one over on Latinos by tricking them into thinking he’s one of them. ... Patrick O’Rourke — Robert Francis’ father — once explained that he was
the one who gave his son the nickname in the first place and the reason
had a lot to do with politics, as well as geography. According to The
Dallas Morning News, the patriarch reasoned that if
his son ever ran for office in El Paso, the odds of being elected in
that largely Mexican-American city were far greater with a name like
Beto. When told of his father’s words, O’Rourke shrugged them off, calling his father “farsighted.” I’d use different words, like cynical and dishonest and manipulative.
