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 don’t really understand why people keep making totalitarian comparisons with Trump. Is it because of his “tone”?
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.
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.