Understand this. All these things—that Bush speaks Spanish, supports legal status for the undocumented, married a woman from Mexico—feed the narrative that Trump has pushed to working class whites since he first began attacking the establishment’s candidate: “Bush isn’t for you. He’s for the Mexicans.”  

It’s not unlike the accusations from some on the right wing in 2008 that Barack Obama, if elected, would be a president for African-Americans but no one else.

As a Mexican-American, I knew this day would come—when someone who spoke Spanish and had moderate views on immigration would be accused of being too close to “the Mexicans.” But I never imagined the accusation would be hurled at a white guy.

Using political jujutsu, Trump will probably keep Bush out the top tier of GOP presidential candidates until that moment when he drops out of the race altogether.