r/politics • u/TwilightwovenlingJo • 17h ago
Hispanic Voters Are Turning Against Donald Trump: Polls
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls-hispanics-21170094.3k
u/mynamesyow19 17h ago
How any of them ever thought he would do anything besides FUCK THEM OVER is completely beyond me. He literally has laid out how he feels about Hispanic/Minority immigrants a thousand times.
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u/SummerSun75 16h ago
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I guess at this point the Republikan Party has fucked people over for so long they just take it in stride.
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u/Mr__O__ New York 16h ago
Stockholm syndrome
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u/Lower-Lion-6467 15h ago
Just gotta shout about something that makes them uncomfortable, like trans people, and they circle the wagons.
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u/beadzy 14h ago
Apparently there’s strong conservativism in their communities. They thought they were voting for the republic party who knows how important the Hispanic population is to the success of our country, and are all talk when it comes to deportation for that reason. Little did they realize that don the con only wanted their votes and to pick up right where he left off. I’m surprised he hasn’t accused them of eating peoples rabbits and gerbils or some shit
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u/loltheinternetz 9h ago
As someone who grew up in Latin America, and knows people from all parts of LA - this is it at the core. Outside of very modern diverse metros like Mexico City, Hispanic culture is simply lagging behind much of Western culture in progressivism and tolerance.
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u/Mr__O__ New York 7h ago
Communities that follow organized religion tend to go that way..
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u/TheSodomeister 16h ago
Used to work with an older Mexican guy that was super into trump and conspiracies. He would say he's only going to get rid of the illegals (even though he had family that was "illegal").
He got fired for yelling at HR because they wanted him to either accept or deny health insurance during open enrollment, and he refused to do either.
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u/Cowclops 16h ago
What’s the end game for both refusing insurance and refusing to refuse insurance? Like I can’t in my most charitable moment come up with weak internal logic that justifies this. Sounds more like a child throwing a fit.
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u/TheSodomeister 16h ago
I assumed he didn't want it at the moment, but wanted to be able to sign up later if he did want it, and as long as he didn't officially refuse, he could do that. 🤷♂️
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u/Schlonzig 14h ago
So he didn‘t want to pay for insurance before needing it. That‘s not how that works.
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u/FattimusSlime New Jersey 16h ago
Most companies will let you enroll year-round if you lose coverage elsewhere (like if you were covered by a spouse’s insurance and they lose their job). That’s a crazy hill to choose to die on.
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u/juggling-monkey 15h ago
Can't turn me away from the hospital if I never denied health insurance, and you can't charge me if I never accepted it. The perfect loop hole...
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u/MarkEsmiths 16h ago
He got fired for yelling at HR because they wanted him to either accept or deny health insurance during open enrollment, and he refused to do either.
Oof. Someone gets their nose flared and Idiocracy gets cued up pretty quick.
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u/ImNoRickyBalboa 16h ago
No offense, but most of them are the kind that like to pull the ladder up behind them. Immigrants and latino people are just like everybody else: selfish, stupid and petty.
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u/FriendToPredators 16h ago
So desperate to be one of the establishment they held up a giant middle finger to every ally who helped them get where they are.
I hope everyone of them has the year they voted for. They will not learn a damnn thing otherwise
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u/disgruntled_pie 12h ago
If they were going to learn then they’d have done it by now. We keep assuming people will vote for literally any Democrat if the Republican candidate sucks enough. That strategy has put Trump in the White House twice, and we still seem to think the voters will realize they made a mistake any minute now.
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u/FriendToPredators 11h ago
They aren’t going to learn if they don’t face consequences, for sure.
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u/0utandab0ut1 16h ago
As a Latino, I definitely had my share of standing witnesses to this level of betrayal. I call this the, "I got mine, now fuck you," mentality.
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u/jmodd_GT 15h ago
Thanks for confirming my suspicions about the dynamic. Some of my (white) friends were complaining that Latinos voted against their own interests because they're conservative, but I try pointing out many Latino Americans don't identify with all Latinos; it's not just like one big club.
I imagine plenty of well-off brown people are just as susceptible to the classist notion that Trump is just going after criminals, maybe even more so.
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u/brooklyndavs 15h ago
It’s definitely a mix for sure. But a lot of Latinos got caught up in the whole MAGA working class thing plus they were the most impacted by post-Covid inflation. So in a two party system they vote for the other person. The projection onto what Trump would do for people was crazy, and now those are coming home to roost
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u/crakemonk California 15h ago
Of course, Trump isn’t going after the Latinx people who are hard workers like THEM. Until he does.
They think they are assimilated enough and have become “American” enough. As we’ve seen by current ICE raids, that hasn’t been the case, and in reality they’ve voted against their own interests.
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u/janethefish 14h ago
In-group heterogeneous vs outgroup homogeneous
To Latin(o/a/x) people they are varied cultures spread across numerous countries over two continents! To Trump they are one big faceless mass.
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u/40StoryMech 16h ago
You can just say "Republican".
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u/nandoboom 15h ago
Right, no point of trying to analyze all these different groups that got fucked, like for more than 50 years Republicans have not offered anything unless your are rich, is infuriating the dumbassery
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u/Vyzantinist Arizona 14h ago
Conservatives see life as a zero sum game. They've long been conditioned to see that a 'loss' for the people they hate is fundamentally equivalent to a 'win' for themselves. That's how the GOP and right-wing media has R voters bent over a barrel and loving it - because the Party doesn't need to actually do anything for the base, they just need to hurt the people the base hates. R voters will then convince themselves this is all they need from their elected officials.
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u/SpoonyDinosaur 14h ago edited 14h ago
Isn't just a Latino phenomenon. It's the desire to be on the "winning" team, not the right team.
A lot of Latino's are desperate to "belong" and don't think about culture. Hell the "leader" of the proud boys is Hispanic. They don't want to be Hispanic, they want to be in the racist white guy club. (Like black slave owners)
I've seen boomer moms that marched for Roe v Wade devolve into "well states should decide," and turn into the "fuck you I got mine."
It is fascinating the younger Latino's that are literally on DACA or Visas that are getting their siblings, parents, grand parents deported and surprised however. Leopard's eating well.
The videos of Latino voters losing their husband/wife, parents because they voted for Trump are not necessarily funny to me, but it's hard to have sympathy.
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u/IceNein 16h ago
Yeah, living in Southern California, I have literally had a Latina tell me that she knows it’s a good neighborhood if she sees white women walking dogs.
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u/talinseven 15h ago
Our neighbor across the street in Texas said that she voted for Trump because “they’re the good ones”. she is born here, but her husband is undocumented.
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u/lalabera 15h ago
How are they feeling now?
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u/glossyducky Arizona 12h ago
My father is similar as he was born in the U.S. and married my immigrant mother who was undocumented until she got her green card and he still hates on Hispanics/immigrants. He said that he would be happy if I, the racially ambiguous offspring, would be arrested by ICE just for looking “suspicious.” Some people’s cognitive dissonance is beyond saving.
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u/SmolishPPman Washington 14h ago
I’m pretty certain at least one of them is feeling a bunch of batons
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u/crakemonk California 15h ago
My grandmother is second generation, her grandparents were migrant farm laborers who moved to the US from Mexico and spoke zero English. They just crossed the border and started living in California, there wasn’t some fancy way of becoming citizens.
She is one of the most racist against Hispanic people I have ever met. She will talk shit and will literally pretend she doesn’t understand someone if they speak Spanish to her, even though she’s fluent.
Her opinions were deeply ingrained in me for a very long time because that’s all I knew, she did raise me. It took me a long time to realize that not everyone in this world has had such a cushy life as I have been given, and I was just lucky enough to have been born in the US.
It’s also ingrained into the Mexican way of life that the whiter your skin, the higher up in society and respect you will receive. That dates back all the way to the Spanish Conquest with the casta system with rigid social hierarchy.
I just wish we could all get along.
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u/IceNein 15h ago
I dated a woman from San Diego for a short while and growing up she hated that she was Hispanic, and did her best not to appear Mexican at all. I honestly felt sorry for her that she felt that way.
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u/crakemonk California 15h ago
My grandma was the same way growing up in Los Angeles. She wasn’t white enough to be fully accepted by the white people and did not fit in with the Hispanic people either. This was in the 40s and 50s.
It was ingrained in her to assimilate and fit in by my great-grandparents. They were very strict and it was very important that all of their 6 girls learn English first and if they happened to learn Spanish then so be it. My grandma was the only one who really learned Spanish, and she was the eldest.
Of course every generation has married the whitest of men, so I don’t look very Hispanic and my son has blonde hair and blue eyes. It was a weird culture to be raised in, we made tamales every Christmas at my great-grandparents and my great-grandfather made a delicious menudo, but food was really the extent of what we held on to as a family.
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u/GiftToTheUniverse 16h ago
It’s not white women walking dogs that brings the home values up; it’s dogs wearing shoes while being walked that does the trick.
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u/Dr-Mumm-Rah 15h ago
Doggy crocs are so hot right now. Practically bring up neighborhood home values by themselves.
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u/ProfessionalField508 15h ago
I live in a pretty nice neighborhood and haven't seen that. Rich LA is something else.
I don't think I'll be having an Erewhon smoothie any time soon.
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u/Neokon Florida 16h ago
Purely anecdotal, but the most racist interactions and statements I've heard have been between different groups of Hispanics. There's a good amount of special reasoning going on with the deportations as well. I've had a student whose parents were immigrants (did not come through legal channels the first time) from Costa Rica. The student and the parents operated under the idea that all illegal immigrants were Mexican, and they were the worst.
It's so interesting to see them realize that when Trump said he was going to target Hispanic he meant all Hispanics.
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u/MizzelSc2 16h ago
100% White Black and even more so Asians are no exception to this kind of stupid mentality.
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u/Spartannia 16h ago
I get that but he will literally fuck anyone over except himself and maybe Ivanka
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u/blueghost47 15h ago
I've been thinking for a while that for whatever reason, the only sense of shared community we have as Americans anymore is we are all completely selfish as fuck. Maybe it's the lack of safety nets, maybe it's growing poverty, idk. But symptom or cause, it's bad
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u/Own_Ad_2800 16h ago
Also wasn't the majority of Hispanic votes for trump were chovonistic men who didn't go to college and were young?
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u/TheUglyBarnaclee 16h ago
Oh for sure 100%. One of my cashiers who is Mexican told me he voted for Donald Trump....and his dad is an undocumented citizen. His dad also ended getting deported which has hurt him and his mom alot when it comes to money and stuff. The manosphere has done wonders to guys 17-22
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u/jdash11 15h ago
Lmao wtf bro. Is there an ounce of self-preservation or awareness in that dumbass?
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u/samsaruhhh 15h ago
I think redditors would be surprised at the number of Hispanic female nurses at hospitals in the inland empire who listen to country music and vote Republican... I certainly was
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u/Chicago1871 15h ago
Yes, latinas voted for trump much less.
Actually they voted way more than latino men, so almost made up the difference.
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u/fiction8 13h ago
Across all ethnicities that's generally his strongest demographic, yes. Disaffected men without a college degree.
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u/WDCGator 16h ago
They're called Cubans (I can say this as im part Cuban, my grandma is 100% Cuban and a Trump supporter who thinks Cubans who fleed communism are different and more entitled than Mexicans fleeing cartels.
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u/Pndrizzy 15h ago
I know someone who was born and raised in Mexico, got married to a dude and got citizenship around 21 years old, divorced him right after getting citizenship, and now loves Trump because "too many Mexicans are getting in, and it should be harder".
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u/EyeFicksIt 14h ago
Hey fuck you as a latin American I can tell you you’re absolutely fucking correct.
I didn’t mean to say fuck you.
Knee jerk reaction
God we suck
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u/Purple-Slide-5559 16h ago
You said this much more succinctly than I did above. A sad trend of Racism, Egotism?, Chauvinism, and praise to a fake diety who says that men are the rulers/women are the baby maker/guys burn forever in hell. None of those roles are ever allowed to change or evolve and if you allow it then you are also now gay. Which means bad, colloquially. Plus the I got mine so fuck you and yours mindset.
Sometimes I wonder if they fled where they were, or if they were just sent here because they fuckin suck? Just like many of our countries first colonizers. Bunch of puritanical fucking lame asses who everyone else decided were douchebags, and so when they left Dodge, the government of their home country just throws up deuces and thanks their lucky stars to be rid of them.
I still support their right to apply for sanctuary and wish them a healthy life. Just wish they would also stop being such dickheads.
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u/Chicago1871 15h ago edited 14h ago
They werent sent here. If they’re Mexicans they grew up under a far left government and received a leftists secular public education.
Theyve just assimilated to America, a little too well. Theyre getting more religious as their family back hone becomes less. Theyve started to believe in neoliberalism while their home nations reject it.
Look at how many leftists presidents weve had across america vs latinos following the overton window in the USA.
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u/Purple-Slide-5559 15h ago
I dont actually believe they are being sent. We are just unfortunately advertising what they want to hear
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u/captainjake13 14h ago
A Hispanic cop told me I needed to vote republican if I wanted my criminal neighbors prosecuted
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u/valeyard89 Texas 14h ago
yeah and Latinos/Hispanics aren't all a monolithic group. They all hate each other too.
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u/D0013ER 16h ago
Lifelong Texan here.
Latinos have always skewed conservative down here, and most have integrated frustratingly well with the worst parts of southern good-ol'-boy redneck Americana.
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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot 14h ago
Yep. Latinos are my neighbors, my local small business owners, a lot of my friends growing up. I’ve been to their weddings, I’ve listened to their sermons. Expecting progressive liberal ideals from any of them is a misplaced expectation. All of them skew conservative, and many skew towards trad-wife bullshit, too.
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u/Despacio1316 5h ago
The machismo culture still runs strong in their elderly and sadly it’s being my adopted by the youth now.
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u/vaskov17 16h ago
Many of them see themselves as white. I have a friend from Brazil that's pretty dark skinned and he considers himself to be white when visually he is somewhere between black and dark skinned Hispanic
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u/dzogchenism 16h ago
This is the issue. “My ancestors are Spanish from Spain therefore I am of European descent just like the Italians therefore I am white.”
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u/Niniflo 16h ago
To be honest that would be mostly Argentinians but other countries in Latin American don’t consider themselves to be European but of course there might be a few but a minority. Yet classism in Latin America based in skin color is definitely still present.
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u/IceNein 16h ago
Lighter skin tone being a sign of beauty is all over the world. It is absolutely crazy how western media has indoctrinated people. I think it’s incredibly sad.
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u/GiftToTheUniverse 16h ago
I think colonization is more to blame than western media. The exception (to western colonization) being maybe Asia where it has more to do with associating leisure class with not having to work out in the sun.
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u/hawaiirat 15h ago
Not just beauty but also wealth and status. Poorer people work in the fields in the sun all day and have darker skin.
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u/dzogchenism 16h ago
Cubans have entered the discussion. lol Also once Hispanics/Latinos have migrated to the US, perspectives are different compared to the dynamics in their home country.
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u/XI_Vanquish_IX 16h ago
It’s a psychological and sociological phenomena associated with people trying to identify with something that is stronger or more powerful than their actual station. In America the cliche “oh I will be a billionaire one day surely” delusion among blue collar people is the most common example of something similar that doesn’t have a racial component.
For many minorities in America, the obsession with “cowboys” and being like a hick is little more than an internal and desperate desire to be seen as an equal. This isn’t to say the average minority does this on a large scale but it’s a perfect explanation for why some minorities vote against their own best interests.
The truth is they subconsciously believe they are still serving their best interests by trying to fit in. The problem is that one by one they are singled out by the actual people in power until there are none left.
This is why “united we stand and divided we fall” is more than just a motto.
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u/FriendToPredators 16h ago
Not to the young kids Italians and Irish and Spanish didn’t use to count because Catholic. It didn’t use to be White that counted it was WASP
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u/dzogchenism 16h ago
Yes I’m well aware of that but Italians and Irish were slowly included into whiteness in the US. Spanish folks want in.
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u/jb4647 16h ago
As a white male who overhears what is said about minorities, they will NEVER be invited the after party. They are being used for their votes and nothing more.
They will still be rounded up and deported.
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u/MikeExMachina 16h ago
Tell that to Marco Rubio, you may not pass the smell test, but your kids might. The great ambition of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.
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u/Hilarious_Disastrous 16h ago
And he has problems with trans people who identifies with a different gender from their biological sex? Hoo boy.
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u/MarkEsmiths 16h ago
Many of them see themselves as white. I have a friend from Brazil that's pretty dark skinned and he considers himself to be white when visually he is somewhere between black and dark skinned Hispanic
This stuff never goes away.
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u/sec713 16h ago
Yes, it really is something, the amount of dullards out there who think, "Yeah, but I'm different, that won't happen to me".
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u/BleachedUnicornBHole Florida 16h ago edited 16h ago
I can’t say for all, but from what I’ve seen from living in South Florida it’s a combination of things. The two biggest are their strong negative feelings towards “socialism” and seeing themselves as special.
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u/IAmTheNick Florida 16h ago
You also have to throw in misogyny as well. I worked construction in Miami and a lot of those guys straight up did not want a woman as president.
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u/goforpoppapalpatine 16h ago
He doesn't just hate Hispanic/minority immigrants, he hates all the brown people including those still in their home countries, too
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u/Purple-Slide-5559 16h ago
Anecdotal here, but i think that lots of the anti LGBTQ stuff is for recently immigrated Hispanics, with strong culture still rooted in Catholic mysticism and EXTREME investment in the structure of the Patriarchy. Those messages of hate toward queer folk seem to resonate the most with people deeply ingrained in masochistic strict religious moral codes.
I'm only speaking about a very large portion of Hispanic working class men that have settled in the Midwest, and even more specifically, Nebraska. A very large and vocal majority of Hispanic men i know, work with, many of which I would consider friends ranging from casual to close friend levels. There is a deep through-line of casual to almost mouth frothing levels of opposition to homosexuality. Homophobia is actually a phobia in a lot of these guys that I know. Push plate, gay hate, is the joke I tell myself to make fun of and get by my days of having to work with some of these guys. I try to educate and bat down with some people who seem to just be going along, but I won't lie and say it isn't disheartening.
All this to say that, the phony idea that Conservatives push of being the party of traditional family values (man strong and rule, woman weak and do wifing, penis go vagina or God say bad) is a fun LARP game that many of these small men can latch onto and make themselves feel strong and big and better than others. All while ironically being headed by a serial rapist, adulterer, and absolute sleazebag who hasnt ever worked hard or picked up a wrench in his pathetic life. It is a sad pattern I have seen.
I could go on, I have many other thoughts. But it boils down to: I hate f*gs and am surprisingly racist toward Hispanics not from my country of origin, much more than I care about my wife or whether the guy down the street gets deported.
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u/PointedlyDull 16h ago
Many Blacks and Hispanics loved the anti trans anti lgbtq stuff. Homophobia is rampant in those communities. Newsome’s about face on trans issues isn’t coincidental
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u/whichwitch9 16h ago
I mean, my ex brother in law is still a Trump supporter as a Mexican American, but he's also a fucking idiot in pretty much every aspect of his life, so I suppose that's why.
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u/nothoughtsnosleep 16h ago
Theyre a very patriarchal culture. They'd rather have a man in charge and fucking them over than a woman be in charge at all.
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u/Jester1525 16h ago
For every Latino macho guy who thought he was in charge I've ever known the was a mom or grandmother ready to verbally rip them up one side and down the other..
It's a very male-forward culture for sure.. But in the background, you keep your momma and abuela happy..
That said, yeah, I could see a lot of Latino men say "well, she isn't MY Abuela!"
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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 14h ago
Very reminiscent of Italian and even Jewish culture in that regard.
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u/MrTigerEyes 16h ago
I know this is just one part of Latin America, but Mexico currently has a woman president. It isn't fair to paint an entire culture as being misogynist when at least some aspects of it seem to be more progressive than what is within the United States.
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u/JoeHatesFanFiction Florida 16h ago
I went to school in Florida in a very Hispanic area, but I’m white. I was in middle school where I started realizing that Hispanic people do not see themselves as one group. Hell even people from the same country don’t see themselves as part of the same group because skin color plays a major part in the whole thing as well. As an outsider I don't think I understand it that well. But it’s a mistake to act like the Hispanic community is actually something that exists as anything more than a census category
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u/Logical-Selection979 16h ago
Now they have 3.5 years left to watch their stupidity roll them over. 250 years was a good run
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u/Phlowman 16h ago
It’s not like this is new information that was just discovered at his campaign announcement in 2015 he was shitting on hispanic immigrants!
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u/tg19801980 16h ago
It is bizarre. They really think ICE patrols rolling around looking for brown people are really going to care if your are legal before at best just hassling you and at worst deporting you by mistake?
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u/Henshin-hero South Carolina 16h ago
I am from PR. My inlaws also. They watch Fox News all day and dumb conspiracy shit on FB. They voted for TACO in chief and still defend him. No empathy for hispanics with no papers and are ok with them being sent out with no due process. Pisses me off but free daycare is more important at the moment lol
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u/stillwater1973 16h ago
They can’t bring themselves to vote for a woman so instead they voted for a man who made clear he hates them. Nice job guys
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u/SmolishPPman Washington 16h ago
It’s really simple, Hispanics are conservative Christians. They would never vote for a woman for a black woman at that.
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u/Dimitri3p0 17h ago
A bit late, no?
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u/vaskov17 17h ago
Way too late, by the time MAGA is out of power the USA will be unrecognizable and unfixable
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u/BubbleGumps 17h ago
It's already unrecognisable. It'll never be what it was. It can't be fixed, but it can be changed.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 16h ago
I’m a believer in “everything happens for a reason, and if it doesn’t, make a reason out of it”. We can’t take what we lost back. But maybe we can make this the wake up call we needed to change an already flawed and nosediving system
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u/-CJF- 16h ago
It can be fixed, but it would require bold actions from Democrats that we won't be getting with corporate dems. We'd need a supermajority of progressives. We need constitutional amendments.
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u/sporkhandsknifemouth 16h ago
As we can see with Cuomo, corporate dems see their interests more aligned with republicans than their own party membership. They're willingly playing a false opposition to keep republicans viable, and now asking for favors from Trump in Cuomo's case.
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u/Purple-Slide-5559 16h ago
So we take them down. We drown out the message of the Cuomos of the world. Maybe this whole internet thing will end up being a source for good? Allowing people to message and communicate freely might just allow us all to see how much better it can be and see who's responsible for it being how it is. Cautious optimism
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u/joosiebuns 16h ago
See: the recent law passed in Mississippi requiring age (aka identity) verification for social media sites. The internet is not going to be the same in a year.
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u/TheGivenKing 16h ago edited 11h ago
Way too late in Texas and I'm sure a lot of other red states are going to follow suit with revamping districts to minimize voting power for Latino areas.
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u/aliciah25 16h ago
I was thinking the same thing! He’s never been down with the browns. Especially black and Hispanics. And for them to support him is wild
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u/waterfall_hyperbole 16h ago
It's really only latinos who supported him, idt black people have ever really liked trump
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u/IamBrian2 16h ago
Never should’ve fucking supported him in the first place
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u/Magnetic_Eel 16h ago
But but but his opponent was a woman! With a weird laugh!
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u/Ashangu 16h ago
yall joke but that was literally my moms reasoning for not voting for her lmao.
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u/eyesupheer 16h ago
I dont think its a joke lol it seems to have been the actual opinion from a majority of people. Nothing substantive, nothing to do with her policies -- just woman bad, person of color bad, time to vote for the fascist.
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u/JMellor737 15h ago
I will never forget hearing a voter in the 2020 Democratic primary say he preferred Biden to Pete Buttigieg because "Buttigieg is too smart. He always makes his point perfectly and he never gets confused on stage. I like Biden. He gets confused sometimes and he misspeaks. That's more like me."
The guy literally wanted a less skilled speaker as president because he didn't identify with good speaking. This is how American voters think. My heart sank hearing that, and it has never recovered.
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u/PsychologicalCase10 Georgia 14h ago
I remember the woman during the Iowa caucus who was prepared to vote for Buttigieg until she found out he’s gay.
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u/Cagnazzo82 14h ago
I'm sure having the screaming families being separated was worth it.
Humanity is its own worst enemy.
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u/HighlyOffensive10 14h ago edited 14h ago
That was the excuse. Your mom is either a racist, a misogynist or both.
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u/ClashM California 14h ago
Internalized misogyny is pretty normal among religious women.
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u/United_Anteater4287 17h ago
Trump doesn’t care since, if he has his way, there won’t be any Hispanic voters soon.
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u/Embarrassed-Pride776 17h ago
I'll believe it when I see it.
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u/blues111 Michigan 17h ago
Same...when there was signs of racedep from Hispanic voters in polls it didnt really come to full fruition until 2024
It wasn't an instant flip
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u/Royal-Pay9751 15h ago
It also DOES NOT MATTER IN ANY WAY.
Do people seriously not grasp what is happening to America?
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u/Peroovian 14h ago
If they actually understood what is happening they wouldn’t have voted for Trump or stayed home.
The Latinos who are feeling regret aren’t thinking about the destruction of democracy and Trump being a dictator. Their concern is that Trump is targeting them when they didn’t think he would. Which is fucking stupid anyway.
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u/Librarian_Zoomies 16h ago
As someone who saw it all from a mile away, I wish I could even understand that level of their bubble, understanding, and misinformation.
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u/chrispg26 Texas 16h ago
Im in the community and also don't understand.
But I can explain. It WAS racism AND misogyny.
They can vote for a white woman (Clinton) or a black man (Obama), but BOTH was a bridge too far.
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u/iSNiffStuff 16h ago
It’s religious indoctrination, pro life, and homophobia too.
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u/chrispg26 Texas 16h ago
Not really. Those elements have been in the community way before Trump showed up, yet our community still voted Democratic since it was in our best (financial) interest. They lost sight of that.
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u/RDOCallToArms 16h ago
Who cares if voters are turning against Trump?
Are they turning against conservatism? Are they becoming progressive? Are they rejecting their GOP senator and members of congress?
It’s incredibly unlikely trump will ever be on a ballot again. Voters turning against him is completely irrelevant
They have the power to do whatever they want. They’ve demonstrated they will do whatever they want. People having post election regret, even if that were true on any significant level (which it doesn’t appear to be), is irrelevant.
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u/WrathfulSpecter 13h ago
The problem is the vast majority of them are ignorant and treat voting like only a privilege without taking the responsibility to inform themselves.
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u/Big_b00bs_Cold_Heart 16h ago
Did they think they were the “right shade of brown” to be safe from his hatred?
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u/loglighterequipment California 16h ago
I think they didn't believe his words.
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u/Pndrizzy 15h ago
No, I really do think that it's closer to the person you were replying to. They think they're "one of the good ones" and Trump just wants the "bad ones" to suffer. What they don't realize is that to Trump, they are all bad
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u/Callabrantus Canada 16h ago
Yeah, because election results are ever going to matter again.
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u/SummerSun75 16h ago
Diddler J. Taco won the Latino vote 52 - 45 in 2024.
They're gettin' what they voted for.
Mass deportations (70% of Hispanics held in detention have not committed even one crime), inflation raging and likely to get much worse, economy close to recession now.
Great job! Keep voting for those fucken' Republikans!!
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u/kobebeef24 16h ago
For the latino 2024 vote share, it was 48% taco, 51% Kamala, 1% other. Still that is insane. Self destruction level of insane. They swung 12% further right compared to 2020. Despite all the things T said he'd do to them. Insane.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/trump-harris-latino-voters-2024-election-pew
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u/No-Kings-2025 16h ago
Shouldn’t have become white supremacists in the first place, fellas. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-rise-of-latino-white-supremacy
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u/Mind_Prints 16h ago
Too. Fucking. Late.
I’m hispanic and watched “friends” and family vote for this administration.
Too little, too late.
Fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for him.
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u/Foconomo America 15h ago
I really don't have any sympathy for Hispanic Trump voters. Like if you just took a moment to look you would see he's terribly racist and elitist.
Remember when that stand up comedian called PR a "floating pile of garbage" like 3 days before the election? That was at a Trump rally.
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u/Impressive-Tip-903 16h ago
After turning everything over to Trump I don't think I can believe that the voting population is even remotely reasonable or predictable. I'll believe otherwise when I see it.
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u/Nearby_Blueberry_302 16h ago
I have seen these post so many times that polls are probably like "-2000% agree with him".
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u/Own_Ability_447 15h ago
A lot of you commenters sound as ignorant as the people you’re making fun of.
There are 60+ million people of Hispanic descent in the US. They come from over 30 different countries, include every economic class and education level, and they include all races — white, black, native, asian, mixed, you name it.
We are not a monolith.
There is no single reason Hispanic people do anything, because we’re an enormous, incredibly diverse group who often has little more in common than a language (and even then many of us don’t even speak Spanish).
If you’re befuddled by the “Hispanic vote,” here is the actual answer:
The Hispanic people who voted for Donald Trump did it for the same reasons non-Hispanic Trumpers did: because they’re stupid, greedy assholes.
That’s it.
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u/DC_Doc 14h ago
Honestly, the “welfare queen“ propaganda/political argument has worked wonders for republicans. Hispanics don’t want to be associated with one of “those lazy minorities” (cough cough black) so they latch onto the “hard-working independent” republican identity thinking they’d be included. They do not understand American racism. White republicans also believe they deserve welfare, while others don’t.
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u/amanam0ngb0ts 16h ago
A Reuters survey released this week put Trump's support among Hispanic voters at just 32 percent, the weakest level recorded since his return to the White House.
The decline is mirrored in the latest YouGov/Economist poll, which shows Hispanic respondents breaking 28 percent approve to 68 percent disapprove. That marks a steep drop from 35/65 in July, underscoring a month-to-month slide in Trump's standing with a voting bloc that was critical to his victory over former President Joe Biden last year.
Well, if these folks had put any serious thought into electing a dude that was openly frothing at the opportunity to deport brown people, and had previously put children in fucking cages, they wouldn’t have helped elect him.
It’s a bit late now.
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u/GrooGrux 16h ago
Another bullshit feel good article title trying to make people feel complacent or like progress is being made. Don't fall for it. Release the other 97% of the Epstein files.
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u/PrefersEarlGrey 16h ago
He literally said he would deport you on the campaign trail? This wasn't a secret. Y'all chose this on November 5th.
You made your bed now lay in it.
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u/Bishopjones2112 15h ago
So only the billionaires, Christian nationalist, racists, neo nazis and pedophiles are with him now? Sounds like a good way to tell who is a piece of crap.
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u/my_favorite_toe 15h ago
Weirdest thing: I keep running full speed into this brick wall, but it never gets rid of my headache
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u/PackageLost1391 14h ago
As a Hispanic, eff my brethren that voted for that fool. You, my brethren, were and will forever in my mind be, fools. Enjoy the bed that you have made and forced us all to sleep in.
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u/TheBigBluePit 14h ago
I’m baffled how any of them could support him in the first place. He’s made it very clear he intended to fuck over Hispanics and minorities.
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u/Migrant-With-MK47 11h ago
They can eat shit; they knew exactly what they voted for.
Enjoy it, idiots.
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u/Darrkman2 5h ago
At this point it doesn't matter. Trump already used their racism and sexism against them and played them like useful idiots.
Black people tried to warn them but they didn't listen.
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u/GoodMix392 16h ago
Couldn’t vote for a woman. Couldn’t support a party that supports the LGBTQ rights.
Ladder pullers, meet face eating leopards.
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