Posted on 08/21/2015 4:11:01 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump will not do well among Latino voters, the fastest growing U.S. electoral demographic — no matter what Donald Trump says.
"If I get the nomination, I'll win the Latino vote," Trump told NBC News on July 8, after his heavily criticized comment about Mexico sending "rapists," criminals, and drug dealers across the U.S. border. "Yeah, I think I'll win the Hispanic vote," he affirmed in Laredo, Texas, on July 23.
http://www.theweek.com/articles/572872/could-latinos-actually-warm-caudillo-candidate-like-donald-trump
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
All of the above, is very normal writing, and not to be particularly noticed. Except this isn't a completely regular article. Here is where things get interesting, further down: (again quoting from the original here)
"Among the small cadre of political observers who believe Trump may actually do well among Latinos is Ruben Navarrette Jr., a syndicated columnist who focuses on Latino issues. "Hispanics for Trump?" he asks in USA Today. "Oh yeah. Get ready. That's a thing."
"Navarrette has three main arguments: Trump's Republican rivals are tiptoeing around immigration issues and "when you flinch, Hispanics notice"; Trump's hard line on immigration actually "is not a deal killer with all Hispanics, many of whom want stricter border security"; and Hispanics are actually pretty similar to other Americans and "what appeals to many other people about Trump also appeals to them." He elaborates:
Hispanics have been deceived and manipulated by both parties. And they're hungry for a candidate who says what he thinks, doesn't back down, hammers the news media, and doesn't sugarcoat differences with opponents. Apart from substance, Trump will get points for his style which — during a hot summer — seems as refreshing as a cool breeze. [Navarrette, USA Today]
That style of projecting strength and confidence through bluster has a name, says Meg Mott, a professor of politics and gender at Vermont's Marlboro College. "In the Spanish-speaking world, this type of leader is known as a caudillo, the man on horseback who takes out the bad guys and leads his people to safety," Mott tells The Christian Science Monitor. "He's rough and he doesn't care about fine things like legal rights, but that very roughness means he can get things done."
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OK you'll have to read the full article, which I've linked to. But this is quite interesting, and seems entirely plausible to me.
I will watch for more referenced to this in the future.
"Caudillo".
Very interesting article.
http://www.theweek.com/articles/572872/could-latinos-actually-warm-caudillo-candidate-like-donald-trump
He won’t get the illegal alien vote, though.
I don’t know about Hispanics, but something I find very creepy is that Americans seem to like this Hugo Chavez nutty caudillo approach.
I think the stage was set for this by Obama, who essentially has turned the U.S. Government into a one-man show, crushed his enemies, and simply proclaimed his own bizarre policies, doing away with minor hindrances such as legislative approval or actually working to develop good policies. He relies on his little band of rabid followers - blacks - to create enough social disturbance to threaten the rest of the populace and he keeps things stirred up and angry, assigning one group (whites) to the enemy-of-the-people category. This is true caudillo style.
The problem is that now Americans have come to see this as an acceptable and even desirable thing.
I’m just saying.
This is the first I’ve seen the word “Caudillo”.
I will leave it to other more practiced observers of hispanic culture to decide whether this is real, but it seems very plausible to me.
The author of this aricle is western, but the author refers to a man who is Latino, and seems to know of what he speaks. All I am saying is, it sound correct.
Just pointing this one out, for now. Interesting anyway.
(bookmarked for future reference)
Trump has a positive, can-do attitude and it sells.
Most of the rest are hand-wringing, pearl-clutching Republican’ts afraid of progressive shadows.
No.. he will not win the Latino vote.
I bet Donald Trump has earned their respect.
I don’t really understand why people keep making totalitarian comparisons with Trump. Is it because of his “tone”?
But the bottom line, really, is that Trump doesn’t need the Hispanic vote. He can simply win by getting just a few percentage more of the white vote, as Coulter noted. And I suspect that Trump will do very well among blacks and latinos even despite everything.
You mean the U.S. citizen ones? The ones who are legally allowed to vote? Of course they could. Most of the Latino descent people I know aren't any more thrilled about the invasion from the south than the rest of the U.S. citizenship.
Legal immigration, si! Undocumented immigration, no!
It is because he is the front runner it seems, despite all the cat calling, denigration, vehemence and vitriol - from both GOPe and Democrats. Throw in some same slate candidates too.
The fact is that with the exception of one or two conservative on the same slate, there isn’t anything special, noteworthy or extraordinary at all with respect to being able to, or wanting to for that matter, change the status quo of oppressive regulatory government. Those people don’t want to change it at all - they just want to be the ones in control.
Y’know, as we get closer to election day, and Trump is high in the polls, all of the illegals could get skittish and go home (not vote 100 times each) rather than face unknown policies of a President Trump.
I don't see anything nutty about it at all. For starters, it's racist to treat all hispanics as one entity. They aren't.
People like Alpha males, who make them feel inspired. The caudillo male (new word for me, like it) takes care of his own, speaks out for them, loves them, fights for them, doesn't pander.
Trump with the American Eagle and protecting those who got here the legal way? Yeah, that works, it makes them special, cared for, protected, above those who don't follow the rules. Zorro without the mask. Superman but with a neat helicopter for flying.
Trump sure does know how to sell the brand.
We could try having someone who is a business success be president ;it would be a entirely new thing for America!
Will never happen when Rubio crosses over to become the Dem nominee to fill Hillary’s vacancy.
Rubio is a lib and anchor baby, a Dem fantasy child.
I have nothing to back this up, just a thought that popped into my head as I read your comment. Not sure that Americans per se seem to like the caudillo approach. Rather another culture likes it, not the American culture. As an example, my ancestry is French and Belgium. On my maternal side, my ancestors were kicked out of Nova Scotia by the British in the 1700's, settling in the U.S. south. We've never associated ourselves as hypenated Americans...only as Americans, accepting of American culture way back when. The article at the link is bizzare to me and the caudillo concept alien (no pun intended, honestly). Never heard of it, not a clue what it means; would never cross my mind to use the concept. When I found out what it meant, it is creepy to me. What I find creepy is that we seem to be dividing into separate nationality identifications or hyphenated Americans. Why? Lack of assimilation? Illegal immigration even more so, it seems, as these folks come in, don't speak the language and bring with them the same 3rd world cultures they are supposedly trying to escape. They seem to refuse to embrace American values but rather the ones foreign to the Constitution. They organize as voting blocks in order to impose their cultures on other Americans. The caudillo style seems to be an example of this. I'm not sure it is the average American who likes the "Hugo Chavez nutty caudillo approach." The first thing I thought of was "socialist dictator" and "anti-American," incompatible with American values. Rather, those accepting the "caudillo approach " are another culture who "self identifies" with their culture to describe the Trump phenomenon.
The Democrats have that locked up.
That's one of the reasons the Democrat Party is against mandatory voter ID.
Maybe its time that election cheats go to prison for long stretches. 10 years at least.
Yep. Caudillo shmaudillo, they’re voting Democrat.
It will be counted as if they did even if they didn't?
In some locations anyway.
Makes a guy want to check his inventory of Louisville sluggers, when the (bad) idea comes to mind.
Though I do want elections to put sedate, fiscally responsible & cautious individuals in office, who could just maybe have the huevos to confront entrenched bureaucracy, whichever way the vote REALLY goes, win, lose or draw, THAT is how things should go. True accounting for votes.
I HATE electronic voting that produces no paper trail.
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