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In 1998 Clinton's secretary of state stent a SWAT team in to the house of some Cuban immigrants to kidnap a child who's mother died getting him out of Cuba but because his dad was still in Cuba they figured the best way to solve the problem involved point guns at people. Since that event Latinos have voted almost exclusively for Republicans.
My only hope is if there is ever another election they will finally find someone else to hate more than Janet Reno.

Religious, macho, hatred of other-Latin (Mexicans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Domincans etc. have a lot of interrelational hatred), and I-got-mine-ing (pulling up the ladder once they got their citizenship).

I remember 2016 analysis. Texas promised a lot of wall construction jobs. Florida threatened Castro's ghost was going be donated Miami by commie HRC and Biden in 2020. Latinos may be made to hate each other, by country of origin, or ladder being pulled out for those not here yet, for all I know.

By far the biggest indicator of Trump support/voting intentions is how much they consume "trans normalization outrage porn". Trump's baseless confidence that giving all of America to oligarchs will create more jobs can influence low information/analytical people as well.

I might have the wrong attribution, but I think it was Regan who said “Latino voters are Republicans who don’t know it yet.”

As an American who didn't vote for fascism, I wish I could argue with you.

You think that it’s all just guesswork? Lmao good Satan please help me.

Its a shitpost that makes pearl-clutching liberals feel good.

Man = bad

White man = badder

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This. There is no shot that around 85% of white men votes Trump. Not a chance in hell.

Buy guns, learn to use them safely and effectively, stock up on supplies to defend your family and community if the worst happens.

You will inevitably interact with plenty of racists in that process.

I'm barely keeping my sanity from fraying, the last thing I need is to make it worse by surrounding myself with people I hate.

I’m not convinced he has cares about anyone. Looks like black Americans are the smartest men here.

Or we could give their votes more power. Something like... each of their votes counts for 5/3 votes. I think that would be a fair compromise.

Because the democrats made the mind-numbingly stupid decision to pivot right like they always do, this time on immigration. No more, "Building the wall is racist," no more, "No one is illegal," instead it was, "We're the ones who are actually going to build the wall, Trump's all talk." To this end, they attempted to pass a bill that would have greatly expanded the president's ability to crack down on immigrants.

They figured, as they always do, that everyone would simply fall in line behind them as the "lesser evil." Instead, the result was that they undermined their argument that stricter immigration laws were grounded in racism (which they are, of course), and failed to distinguish themselves from the Republican position. Many Latinos have conservative positions on other issues, and, perceiving little significant difference between the two parties' stances on immigration, they voted based on other, less important cultural issues where there was a meaningful difference. It's worth noting that some people have the sentiment, "We came here legally so they can too," and it was only when there was (correct) messaging that cracking down on undocumented immigrants was a slippery slope that would endanger legal immigrants that they were able to be persuaded to set aside other cultural issues. This messaging was abandoned because it was considered potentially alienating the the oh so precious (white) moderate Republicans, who also didn't vote for them, because they're nonexistent/unwinnable.

This is one of many, many examples of how moving towards the "center" can alienate voters and lose votes, especially when it involves acting against your constituents' material interests.

Pop culture didn't do that, billionaires who own all media did that.