Democrats lost Hispanic voters by running to the right on immigration and giving up on any sort of rhetoric about how “building the wall” is racist. The anti-immigrant people still voted Republican, while conservative Hispanics no longer saw a reason to look past culture war issues based on immigration, since there wasn’t that much difference between what the two parties were saying.
People love to go all “leopards ate their face” and just attribute it to stupidity but it’s really a failure on the part of the Democratic party’s messaging and tactics. They caved to the right’s rhetoric and it backfired, just like it always does.
Oh no, that is totally correct. I’m not even really blaming them entirely, because the Democrats really fucked up.
But the Republicans were obviously running to the right of the Dems. With trump and friends openly saying they wanted essentially more concentration camps and more deportations and to expand ICE to enact that policy. Democrats maintained the system of concentration camps and deportations, but Republicans were obviously still worse on that issue. And many voters, including hispanic voters, cited trump as being the better economic choice.
Democrats lost Hispanic voters by running to the right on immigration and giving up on any sort of rhetoric about how “building the wall” is racist. The anti-immigrant people still voted Republican, while conservative Hispanics no longer saw a reason to look past culture war issues based on immigration, since there wasn’t that much difference between what the two parties were saying.
People love to go all “leopards ate their face” and just attribute it to stupidity but it’s really a failure on the part of the Democratic party’s messaging and tactics. They caved to the right’s rhetoric and it backfired, just like it always does.
Oh no, that is totally correct. I’m not even really blaming them entirely, because the Democrats really fucked up.
But the Republicans were obviously running to the right of the Dems. With trump and friends openly saying they wanted essentially more concentration camps and more deportations and to expand ICE to enact that policy. Democrats maintained the system of concentration camps and deportations, but Republicans were obviously still worse on that issue. And many voters, including hispanic voters, cited trump as being the better economic choice.