Republicans sound alarm over Latino vote: ‘This is our wake-up call’

It’s a winning policy in Florida where Cuban immigrants vote Republican. It will be interesting to see if that changes.

https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2024-11-12-u1-e207888-s27061-nid291892-cubanos-unico-grupo-demografico-hispano-voto

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Everyone seems to be really surprised that racism spans all races

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Some people just think that their shared beliefs will unite them with otherwise like- minded people that also hate some facet of their identity. They're usually woefully wrong. It's why we keep seeing conservative women surprised that their political allies are misogynistic and rapey toward them, conservative gay legislators face homophobic attacks from colleagues, and conservative trans people are constantly dead named, misgendered, and called pedophiles by their MAGA associates. They don't see their identity as important, because it's normal to them, so they misjudge how important it is to the bigots they support. And a lot of people, generally, have a "can't happen to me" mindset about such things, until it does. I'm still a bit shocked by the amount that still support them, but not that any do.

because latino is a broad overarching label for a dozen different hispanic groups.. With some being more religiously motivated towards Republicanism (especially thanks to abortion and homosexuality hatred), while other groups are more open minded and care about the attacks on their communities over some pointless religious tryharding.

Which is why no one should be surprised at the amount of hispanic men being photographed doing ice raids.

Some people are idiots.

Lot of latinos have really conservative values passed down by families and insular communities. Trump acted like he was "pro man" and his admin empowered people's worst insecurities about their masculinity. He saw the Tate-taint in our society and pried at it like a scab.

It's very true that if you appeal to someone about the thing they are most insecure about or hung up on, they will look right past the knife you are digging into their back even as they vote for you. He was able to get a shocking amount of votes from people of color this way. That should be our biggest wake-up call, that we're this vulnerable to being conned broadly, that it just takes someone petting any segment of the population for those people to fucking roll over and forget their entire brains exist, making up stories and validations for why they won't have their faces eaten by the Face Eating Leopard Party.

Half the turnout strategy for purple/red district Latinos has been dangling the same red meat that works on flyover country red necks and Miami crypto-bros. "They're comin' fer yer freedoms with the Woke Bullshit!"

Works until the physical reality of the police state catches up with you.

Lots of black conservatives still vote Dem for this reason, as well. Very easy to get people on board with low taxes and "business friendly" economic growth and fucking the environment for a quick buck all else being equal. But when one party runs on "The Greensboro Massacre Was Based" its hard to pivot that into "Woke-ism Bad" when Woke just means "I'd prefer the white people down the road don't burn down my house".

Tell em get back in the van