I bet most Latinos don’t even believe that women have pen1ses either. The Dems need to get more of them into universities, where they can be properly brainwashed.
Steven Carr
4 months ago
The Democrats are the party who put Black people first, while the Latinos are more attracted by a party that wants to make abortion safe, legal and rare.
Yes there is. A colorblind society isn’t wanted by the left. Faux racism is a campaign tactic beginning to wear thin.
William Amos
4 months ago
“… the former president, who once called Mexicans “rapists” and “criminals”…
Did he though? If the writer’s implication is that Mr Trump applied those nouns to the entire nation of Mexico then he is either being dishonest himself or is unwittingly trafficking in the dishonesty of others.
I believe Mr Trump’s exact words were:
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
And later he said:
The Mexican government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.
Polemical as it may be, it seems plain that Mr Trump was quite clearly and specifically referring to an undesirable criminal minority from within the Mexican population, not the population as a whole.
This applies to almost everything for Trump has been criticised. You cannot trust the ‘middle-man’, go back and read/hear the original verbatim words.
Katharine Eyre
4 months ago
I remember a very good article on this issue which was published by UnHerd in the run-up to the 2020 election. It pointed out that many Latinos had come to America to be American and be proud of it. So Trumps MAGA rhetoric hit the right notes with them. The left’s peculiar insistence on calling them “LatinX”, on the other hand, went down like a lead balloon.
On a general note, as an immigrant myself, I find the widespread assumption that all immigrants of whatever origin will automatically cleave to the political left in their new home countries, highly patronising. How your origins, your home culture and your life story translates into a political leaning in your new home country is so complex and individual, it’s impossible to draw broad conclusions about it.
AC Harper
4 months ago
Yet, in the current climate, it’s quite possible that neither he nor Biden stand to win a majority of the American electorate in 2024…
The power of wishful thinking.
Stuart Bennett
4 months ago
Help me out someone, please. Is a populist just anyone at all who doesn’t agree with the far left?
Yes, because disagreeing with the far left is actually very popular.
Alex Lekas
4 months ago
What explains the increasing appeal of the former president, who once called Mexicans “rapists” and “criminals”, to this growing demographic?
Maybe that he didn’t call every single Mexican or Latino a rapist or criminal. Maybe because Hispanic unemployment reached a historic low on his watch. Maybe because Americans of Spanish-speaking descent are not automatically pro-open borders. as only the second Catholic to ever occupy the White House, Biden would do well to play up his piety among Hispanics.
Biden has no piety to play up, so there’s that. You can’t reject much of Catholic doctrine and proclaim yourself a faithful follower.
Here’s an idea: stop freaking out over Trump’s popularity and ask why it is that a candidate like him is possible.
I’ll be laughing over this for a long time. Thanks!
UnHerd Reader
4 months ago
It is the very opposite. Latinos are clinging to Trump because he represents exactly what they do not find in populist Latino politicians. Otherwise they would never have left for America.
Bernard Brothman
4 months ago
I think many Latinos come to the United States for a better life and to work. They do not come here to complain about safe spaces, pronoun mistakes, misgendering or that the United States is systematically racist. They have faith at a higher level than many Americans. I think Trump relates to them.
Juan Rojas
4 months ago
(Author) Jesus Christ guys. At no point do I make a value judgment of Trump–or Biden for that matter. As for the rapists comments, whatever you think he meant, All I’m saying is that it’s superficially surprising that he said that and increased his support among Latinos. Yall need to be less sensitive. If anything, much of what I wrote are compliments.
As for the rapists comments, whatever you think he meant, All I’m saying is that it’s superficially surprising that he said that and increased his support among Latinos.
The phenomonen is indeed interesting and I thank you for bringing it to our attention. However, the point is that your framing of it lacks internal consistency and therefore the plausible explanations drawn from it are, necessarily, as superficial as your surprise.
Personally, I think Trump is a boor and a charlatan but when I see a journalist misrepresenting the primary sources from which he draws his analysis in order to work some desired effect on me as a reader I, like Hamlet, am offended – “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me, you would play upon me…”
It is the same with a lot of writing about Mr Trump. The embellishments and misrepresentations of what he has actually said are legion.
I bet most Latinos don’t even believe that women have pen1ses either. The Dems need to get more of them into universities, where they can be properly brainwashed.
The Democrats are the party who put Black people first, while the Latinos are more attracted by a party that wants to make abortion safe, legal and rare.
Perhaps you could itemise all the ways they have been put first.
If you feel that the Democrats are against affirmative action, you are entitled to your opinion.
Is there anything wrong with putting Black interests first , for a change?
Yes there is. A colorblind society isn’t wanted by the left. Faux racism is a campaign tactic beginning to wear thin.
Did he though? If the writer’s implication is that Mr Trump applied those nouns to the entire nation of Mexico then he is either being dishonest himself or is unwittingly trafficking in the dishonesty of others.
I believe Mr Trump’s exact words were:
And later he said:
Polemical as it may be, it seems plain that Mr Trump was quite clearly and specifically referring to an undesirable criminal minority from within the Mexican population, not the population as a whole.
The Charlottesville thing all over again.
This applies to almost everything for Trump has been criticised. You cannot trust the ‘middle-man’, go back and read/hear the original verbatim words.
I remember a very good article on this issue which was published by UnHerd in the run-up to the 2020 election. It pointed out that many Latinos had come to America to be American and be proud of it. So Trumps MAGA rhetoric hit the right notes with them. The left’s peculiar insistence on calling them “LatinX”, on the other hand, went down like a lead balloon.
On a general note, as an immigrant myself, I find the widespread assumption that all immigrants of whatever origin will automatically cleave to the political left in their new home countries, highly patronising. How your origins, your home culture and your life story translates into a political leaning in your new home country is so complex and individual, it’s impossible to draw broad conclusions about it.
The power of wishful thinking.
Help me out someone, please. Is a populist just anyone at all who doesn’t agree with the far left?
Pretty much.
I think Trump is clearly a populist. The problem is assuming populism is always bad.
For the left, any citizen who does not consider leftists to be angels in the flesh is a dangerous freethinker.
Yes, and it’s a danger to democracy to let voters freely elect them, apparently
Yes, because disagreeing with the far left is actually very popular.
What explains the increasing appeal of the former president, who once called Mexicans “rapists” and “criminals”, to this growing demographic?
Maybe that he didn’t call every single Mexican or Latino a rapist or criminal. Maybe because Hispanic unemployment reached a historic low on his watch. Maybe because Americans of Spanish-speaking descent are not automatically pro-open borders.
as only the second Catholic to ever occupy the White House, Biden would do well to play up his piety among Hispanics.
Biden has no piety to play up, so there’s that. You can’t reject much of Catholic doctrine and proclaim yourself a faithful follower.
Here’s an idea: stop freaking out over Trump’s popularity and ask why it is that a candidate like him is possible.
The Bidens are quite religious. Joe say’s he’s a Catholic and son Hunter is a Crystal Methodist.
I’ll be laughing over this for a long time. Thanks!
It is the very opposite. Latinos are clinging to Trump because he represents exactly what they do not find in populist Latino politicians. Otherwise they would never have left for America.
I think many Latinos come to the United States for a better life and to work. They do not come here to complain about safe spaces, pronoun mistakes, misgendering or that the United States is systematically racist. They have faith at a higher level than many Americans. I think Trump relates to them.
(Author) Jesus Christ guys. At no point do I make a value judgment of Trump–or Biden for that matter. As for the rapists comments, whatever you think he meant, All I’m saying is that it’s superficially surprising that he said that and increased his support among Latinos. Yall need to be less sensitive. If anything, much of what I wrote are compliments.
The phenomonen is indeed interesting and I thank you for bringing it to our attention. However, the point is that your framing of it lacks internal consistency and therefore the plausible explanations drawn from it are, necessarily, as superficial as your surprise.
Personally, I think Trump is a boor and a charlatan but when I see a journalist misrepresenting the primary sources from which he draws his analysis in order to work some desired effect on me as a reader I, like Hamlet, am offended – “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me, you would play upon me…”
It is the same with a lot of writing about Mr Trump. The embellishments and misrepresentations of what he has actually said are legion.