Trump and the Latino Vote

National Review Online ^ | January 31, 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

[billorites]

Trump would not have to change his policies to capture 40 to 50 percent of the Latino vote (which is quite different from “Latino” spokespeople on television and the Jorge Ramos crowd), as opposed to simply articulating them:

1) The “new” Democratic party not only show signs of a new more insidious anti-Semitism — as we’ve seen from comments by Senator Feinstein, Harris, and Hirono, and the surreal and barbarous statements coming out of Virginia and New York on third-trimester abortion (and near infanticide). But it is now becoming anti-Catholic to a degree not seen in decades in America. Why would a devout Catholic wish to side with such bigotry? Trump is on the right side of the abortion and the religious-discrimination issues.

2) Hispanic unemployment is at record low levels in a growing economy. One can see the realities by simply driving around small towns in Central California where the flurry of activity and demand for labor are unprecedented, and workers have a range of options and leverage not seen in the 21st century. Even slight decreases in border crossings are force multipliers in the empowerment of Mexican-American and other Hispanic citizens in efforts to boost wages and gain options in employment. Trump’s policies did much of that, visible even in highly regulated and less dynamic California. Few middle-class commuters wish to endorse the New Green Deal that would mandate soon ending chain saws, leaf blowers and the workers’ daily commute.

3) Open borders falls most heavily on the Latino communities. Schools cannot easily offer advanced placement and competitive courses when huge influxes of non-citizens without English facility enroll in mass. Social services become swamped with thousands of arrivals from impoverished Central America and southern Mexico that impair the quality of attention for U.S. citizens. Gangs do not go to Palos Verdes, Carmel, or Atherton to bully teens, but target Latinos who do not speak Spanish or speak it poorly and are accused of acting “white.” For all the talk of the new demography and tribal solidarity, most U.S. citizens of Latino descent are, like all Americans, terrified of gangs, and they suffer inordinately from identity theft and grow irate when hit by drivers who leave the scene of the accident, given that the downside of illegal immigration falls more on those who often live closer to illegal aliens. Unspoken but also alarming is that the new waves of illegal aliens are largely from Central America, and do commensurately resonate Latino solidarity within Mexican-American communities who see sanctuary cities as green-lighting crime so often aimed at themselves.

It is surreal how Republicans have allowed an open-borders, boutique-green, static- and regulated-economy, anti-Catholic, pro-radical-abortion party to pose as the friend of Hispanic-American voters.

[TakebackGOP]

In all fairness, the entire Republican Establishment also said the GOP needed to change their stances on immigration to get their vote.

[jmacusa]

I’m sick and damned tired of hearing about ‘’The Latino Community’’. Either one is an American or one is not. If you refuse to identify as an American you don’t belong here.

[ckilmer]

Makes sense. Would be great if it happened.

That said, VDS arguments were true in the last election—but hispanics didn’t turn out for republicans in the numbers VDS talked about.

[BeauBo]

Latinos assimilate over time, as have other immigrant groups.

The Dems have to fight that wave by trying to agitate/propagandize Latino citizens, and to overwhelm the number assimilating with more new arrivals.

The bottom line is that Latinos are harder to keep on the Democrat plantation over time, than are Blacks or Jews.

[devane617]

If Dims thought for a minute that Hispanics were voting (R) there would be the biggest wall the world has ever seen.