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Trump told Americas latinos that he was going to deport them en mass and that got him +20 points shift in latino voting patterns in 4 years. https://www.axios.

Trump told Americas latinos that he was going to deport them en mass and that got him +20 points shift in latino voting patterns in 4 years. https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/trump-harris-latino-voters-2024-election-pew https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/trump-harris-latino-voters-... I think that the way to win in American politics is to tell whatever group who you want to vote for you that you intend to screw them as hard as physically possible. Americans politics in 2025 can be best summed up with one word: Schadenfreude

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> Trump told Americas latinos that he was going to deport them en mass and that got him +20 points shift in latino voting patterns in 4 years American politics is racially depolarising. Democrats absolutely missed this. Pretending a gay business owner and Catholic construction worker will vote the same because they share a skin color and language is not informative.
bigstrat2003 1y ago
You aren't trying very hard to understand what's going on if you just blithely write it off as "people vote for whomever screws them". A much more plausible explanation is that there's a contingent of Latinos who take pride in being legal citizens, resent people who are here illegally, and Trump's gains were with said contingent. That's just a theory on my part which may not be true - but it is at least plausible, unlike the idea that people are actively trying to hurt themselves.
- Herring 1y ago
  If you look at the state of the US right now (eg what Trump said yesterday) and you still don't believe there's a lot of latent hate in this country, it's really you who's not trying very hard to understand what's going on. I've traveled all around the world. There's shitty people everywhere. But in America, the shitty people actively expect good PR and "both sides" and "neutral unbiased pov". And they get it. They are given multiple attempts at a coup. Needless to say, it won't end well.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> Trump told Americas latinos that he was going to deport them en mass and that got him +20 points shift in latino voting patterns in 4 years American politics is racially depolarising. Democrats absolutely missed this. Pretending a gay business owner and Catholic construction worker will vote the same because they share a skin color and language is not informative.

bigstrat2003 1y ago

You aren't trying very hard to understand what's going on if you just blithely write it off as "people vote for whomever screws them". A much more plausible explanation is that there's a contingent of Latinos who take pride in being legal citizens, resent people who are here illegally, and Trump's gains were with said contingent. That's just a theory on my part which may not be true - but it is at least plausible, unlike the idea that people are actively trying to hurt themselves.

Herring 1y ago
If you look at the state of the US right now (eg what Trump said yesterday) and you still don't believe there's a lot of latent hate in this country, it's really you who's not trying very hard to understand what's going on. I've traveled all around the world. There's shitty people everywhere. But in America, the shitty people actively expect good PR and "both sides" and "neutral unbiased pov". And they get it. They are given multiple attempts at a coup. Needless to say, it won't end well.