According to CNN exit polling, New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D) won the support of 68% of Latino voters, while Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) received 67% support from Latino voters.
The results mark a shift from just one year ago, when the voting bloc helped propel Trump to victory. Republicans say the time is now to course-correct ahead of next year’s midterms.
“Unfortunately Latinos are leaving the Republican Party after giving us a monumental chance in 2024,” said Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) in an video posted on the social platform X after Tuesday’s results. “In New Jersey and Virginia, Hispanics moved back more than 25 points to the Democratic Party.”
Oh but y’all don’t want to be “woke” eh?
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
It was insane they ever had the latino vote. Too many latinos seemed to think Republicans couldn’t be populist demagogues who’ll cheat & persecute them until they saw it.
It was insane they ever had the latino vote.
Plenty of Latinos are heavily Catholic, white-passing, and coming out of countries where the industries sponsoring their immigration are Republican mega-donors. The whole O&G industry is joined at the hip to the GOP. If you’re talking to a bunch of Venezuelan or Cuban or Nicaraguan immigrants, they’re almost certainly folks who came over on the ratlines laid out by Spook-infested extraction industries. That’s why Florida is such a hard carry for liberal Democrats - it is absolutely infested with people who believe Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton are interchangeable.
Too many latinos seemed to think Republicans couldn’t be populist demagogues who’ll cheat & persecute them until they saw it.
They believe Republicans parallel the “business friendly” conservatives in their own states. Folks who are more interested in doing business deals that rape the local ecology and press-ganging a bunch of native peoples into sweatshops and plantations to turn a profit.
And they’re not entirely wrong. They just don’t always recognize how much the modern GOP is saddled with the White Nationalism of the 60s/70s Nixon Era or understand that in the United States Latinos are not white.
Incidentally, if you ever get into the deep lore of the Texas Revolution, you’re going to find the exact same historical errors committed by the Tejanos - non-European anti-Mexico rebels who allied with Sam Houston’s nascent paramilitary only to get purged from the state the moment the war was over.
It’s the two-faced nature of the Republican Party to invite Latinos in when they’re needed to win a fight and cast them back out again the moment the dust settles.
It’s totally normal to shut the door behind you.
Not to slam the door into your face & crotch, though.
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.
I just want to thank Latino culture for supporting child rapists simply because they claim to be Christian.
To be fair Latino culture isn’t really a monolith. They all hate each other too. So it’s not just the Christian part, racism, sexism and False bravado played a huge part too.
So much truth these three sentences. It’s so crazy how they each other so much.
GOP: we hate brown people! Especially Mexicans!
Latinos in the US: that’s my guy!
…like, what? The hell???
Everyone seems to be really surprised that racism spans all races
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Around here many of them voted for Trump due to not being able to stomach voting for a woman. Thats based on conversations, not a high population poll so make of it what you will.
Meanwhile, actual central and South American countries have elected women to the highest office on multiple occasions
Machismo was a huge reason for my Latin friends. Second highest reason was they were already citizens and ready to pull up the ladder on anyone who wasn’t. Most were actually rich enough to benefit too. They share all the higher points of conservatives. Fuck you I got mine.
And now they get to have leopards eat their face. Zero sympathy.
Who knew deporting brown people illegally, cruelly, for no reason, scapegoating them, and more wasn’t a winning policy for them?
Latino men knew this policy position when they joined the cauc block in re-electing Trump. I’m frankly surprised they’ve swung back.
cauc bloc
Lol
I think they realize nobody is ‘one of the good ones’ and everybody is in the chopping block if anyone is.
Or at least I hope so.
If they have learned that, I also hope the memory lasts.
Yeah, not all of them can see it. I know someone in their late 60s, Hispanic, collecting social security and on medicare, and they’re still consuming right wing propaganda. Until consequences actually happen to them or someone they love, many will continue to see what they wish to be true. It’s really disheartening.
Yep. That’s how narcissistic personality disorder tends to work.
They can only be taught through personal experience, not by example. Because they have no empathy.
It’s the guns. That’s one of their hot topics. They think everyone should have one.
It’s a winning policy in Florida where Cuban immigrants vote Republican. It will be interesting to see if that changes.
This party has had many “wake-up calls” and somehow seems to just go further to the right in response.
I wish I could find the statement from republican representatives after Obama won a second time, that the party is waking up and realizes the need for comprehensive immigration reform, and connecting with latino communities better. Google has become useless for finding things like this now.
And then the Tea Party happened, and things got worse instead.
yeah, my initial reaction reading this article was “no it’s not, they won’t change anything”
It’s still a wake-up call even if they ignore it. Just like a phone call when your phone is in DND mode.
@cybervseas @MicroWave a few quotes here from various people: https://theweek.com/articles/470542/obamas-second-term-case-immigration-reform
Thanks that’s a pretty good collection of what I remember of that era.
How in the ever loving fuck is it only 67%?
Actually surprised is that high. Latinos tend to be hyper religious and homophobics to an almost comical degree.
They’ll fucking starve if it means a woman can’t get an abortion and transsexuals dont get gender affirming care. And They’ll do it gladly to protect “family values”
They’ll fucking starve if it means a woman can’t get…
Natural selection it is then.
The Nazi rise was supported by a group of Jewish Germans called Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (Association of German National Jews). They initially believed that the Nazi Party’s extreme antisemitism was merely rhetorical hyperbole or a tactic used to “stir up the masses,” which would be discarded once the party achieved power. They thought their loyalty and service in World War I would protect them from Nazi persecution. They were banned by the Gestapo in November 1935, and its founder, Max Naumann, was imprisoned. Members of the group eventually faced the same persecution and fate as other German Jews, with many perishing in the Holocaust.
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.
One thing has become to clear to me as a Canadian as I see what’s happening down there: you’re too fucking stupid to have a functional democracy.
It’s a problem Canada shares to a lesser extent. Hell, it’s a problem everywhere, though it seems to be much worse in the US than elsewhere.
If we want a functional democracy we need to make fundamental changes to how children and teens are educated. Critical thinking, knowledge of how the political system works, and general technological literacy need to be core fucking parts of the curriculum.
There is a reason republicans have been cutting education for 40 years. Trump himself said he loves the poorly educated.
Well that and about 4 other things. Off the top of my head I can list Boomers being vaguely fucked up because they were raised by PTSD riddled veterans who were not taken care of who also had the same exact issue, lead in fucking everything because why not, and also a continuous propaganda campaign going on fifty fucken years, and let’s just chuck cold war paranoia leading to the dumbest economic decisions possible. Honestly if I saw a mushroom cloud on the horizon I may actually think it’s a good thing, hell maybe we’d get lucky and trigger an ice age to stall global warming.
Lemmy has disabused me of the stereotypical idea that Canadians are really nice due to reading 5000 comments like this.
Everyone likes to say it’s education but I was taught all the things you mentioned in the US. Meanwhile the apprentice was wildly popular. It’s a culture problem. Money and greed are all the fuck anymore cares about.
Canadians are polite on the exterior. Of course they’re going to have a bit more bite in reality.
It’s a mistake to conflate surface level stereotypes with the reality of a culture. It’s not like anyone actually believes the British to have an ounce of class once you stop to look at the trashy reality lol
Just so I’m understanding your argument correctly: your education wasn’t awful, therefore the education system is fine?
Yes, nuance doesn’t exist. Thanks for getting it.
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.
Lol. They did this after Obama won. Spent a couple million to figure out what went wrong. Decided the Latino vote should be prioritized. Ended up demonizing them worse than ever. And STILL this exists.
They don’t care, the goal is to not have any Latinos left to vote…
Wow, I wonder why Latino men don’t want to vote for the party in power when anyone who looks Latino, regardless of legal status, is being kidnapped and disappeared
I don’t know how you think votes work on the hill but they’re bought and sold like any other commodity. Those Dems didn’t cave to anything they were persuaded with personal wealth in some capacity.
It helps when the words trump says is translated correctly on TV.
