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'It's simple, really' - why Latinos flocked to Trump (www.bbc.com)

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"It's simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago," said Samuel Negron, a Pennsylvania state constable and member of the large Puerto Rican community in the city of Allentown.

Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory over Kamala Harris, capturing key demographics that traditionally supported Democrats. He gained substantial support from white working-class voters, saw a 14-point increase among Latino voters, and performed better than expected with younger voters, especially men.

Economic concerns, particularly inflation, were central to Trump’s appeal, with voters across states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin favoring his promises of lower prices and stricter immigration policies.

Harris struggled to retain support in diverse and working-class areas, as voters blamed Democrats for economic hardships.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Too many ignorant dumbasses that can't understand the concept of delayed effects. The upturn in the economy during Trump's last time in office was a delayed effect of Obama's administration. The shit we're in now is because of Trump's. This shit has happened every single time a Republican has been in office during my life. They fuck everything up, but the effects aren't seen until they're gone.

Outside of the economy: This dumb orange prick was in office during the height of the COVID pandemic and people are still dying from that. If you think it was better 4 years ago, you must have been hiding under a rock.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

At least they will get what they asked for.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

“It’s simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago,” said Samuel Negron, a Pennsylvania state constable and member of the large Puerto Rican community in the city of Allentown.

They apparently liked being stuck in their house while the entire economy tanked, they had to wipe their ass with their own hands, and a dumb ass told them that we'd perhaps look into injecting cleaners to protect themselves from a novel virus that was killing anywhere from 3-10% of the people that initially got it...because that was four years ago.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

A worldwide pandemic was not Trump's fault. If you want to blame him for anything, blame him for listening to Foucci, who was seen as the expert and advising him on what to do. And actually, trump left it up to state governments on whether to follow Foucci's advice. A lot less businesses closed in places like Florida and Arizona because they didn't shut everything down.

Latinos voted for trump because they were sick of smug elites telling them they needed to alter their own language (latinx was a huge failure among the latino population), and how their hard work and earnings didnt really add up to what they felt it did, because of their skin color. Top it off with claiming that even though butter in places like CA is $7 and eggs are $6, the economy was actually better than ever before, and they were just too stupid to understand that.

Loving all these mask-off moments. You're still here, telling Latinos that they actually didnt vote how they did because of reasons they gave, must be because they liked COVID era lockdowns or something.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Hello? Can I have you shittiest take? No...that's far too shitty.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 hours ago

Inb4 they get deported and denaturalized.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 30 points 10 hours ago

Trump voters are stupid and have poor memories.

Except for the ones who are just plain evil.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 55 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

4 years ago...in the height of COVID?

You know you won't be given a phone call or sent a new driver's license or something when we've entered idiocracy. You'll just wake up one day and be in it. And that one day was about two days ago.

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Idiocracy would be an upgrade, it has a president who listened to people smarter than himself.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

But he wasn't the first president along their path of decline, right? He's the dude that was left with the pending shortage of burrito fixings and finally had to get serious about shit.

Also maybe Commacho is the archetype for what a democratic nominee will have to devolve into to finally be "heard" by the broken weirdo populous that use politics as a sport and life identity.

Go read all the headlines about "dems don't know how to communicate with large parts of America" - that statement doesn't mean they said "you all" when they should have said "y'all"... It means that J.D. Pritzker has to start wearing a hot dog costume, legally change his name to "$HITcago DOG" go around the country for the next four years holding rallies where he farts the national anthem, gives everyone who attends a FULL SIZE Snickers bar and humps a blow up doll with marge taylor greene's face taped to it. Along the way, he'll gently sprinkle in messaging, but all of this will also involve just so many compromised principles in a continuing Overton window shift, where the platform devolves to "don't be a dick sometimes, asshole". There's your bumper sticker.

[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

All of this is stressing me out… i’m going to Starbucks.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I could really use an adult latte right about now.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (13 children)

As a Latino, I'm gonna mother fuck and cuss out any Latino I meet who voted Trump.

[–] halfeatenpotato@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com 19 points 21 hours ago

Yup. I live in the FSA (fucked states of america), am latina and I know a few of those fuckers. Beyond disappointing

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[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's simple, really. You and your loved ones will be the first to be tossed on buses when they start collecting people. Enjoy 😊

^ no I'm not remotely happy about this. But I guess people gotta find out that hard way.

[–] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

No you don’t understand, they’re the good ones who came here legally. Nevermind all the rest.

No but realistically, it would be logistically impossible to round up eleven million people.

[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

No but realistically, it would be logistically impossible to round up eleven million people.

laughs in Holocaust numbers

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How the fuck can they say it was better 4 years ago. Do they mean right before Covid hit? Right before people lost their jobs and the dumbass politicized an illness? Right before people couldn't get baby formula? Right before people started fighting for fucking toilet paper? Before people started dying?

Dumb, dumb motherfuckers. You won't be at the table, you're going to be on the table, a table you built, and torn apart with knives you sharpened. You dumb fucks.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 hours ago

Everyone ignores that Trump took a booming economy and turned it into almost a recession on his first term.

Covid covered it up while he completely fucked up handling it too. He made it far far worse than doing nothing and hiding in a bunker. He actively withheld medical aid and caused countless deaths.

But somehow he has over 50m supporters instead of a jail cell.

I honestly don't know how this country can recover when the right can drown out facts and rewrite history with lies.

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