Radio Bilingüe, the largest Spanish-language public radio station in the United States, has been operating for 45 years and now faces its greatest challenge. The measure is the culmination of a long-standing political and ideological campaign against National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the two giants of public broadcasting in the country, which have been accused by the Republican right of being “radical leftist monsters,” in Trump’s own words. “It controlled the sound distribution system for all public radio stations; it was the manager of joint assets. All of that could disappear now.”The Republican rhetoric against public broadcasting is not new. But instead of pursuing a career in law, he returned to California to found a radio station that would speak directly to agricultural workers.