Posted on 11/09/2024 10:48:27 AM PST by DallasBiff
Six years ago in this newspaper, I coined the term “rancho libertarian” to describe a political ideology I was observing in many of the Latino men I knew.
Proud of their family’s rural immigrant roots but fully of this country. Working class at heart, middle class in income. Skeptical of big government and woke politics yet committed to bettering their communities. Believers in the American Dream they had seen their parents achieve — and afraid it was slipping away.
Proud of their family’s rural immigrant roots but fully of this country. Working class at heart, middle class in income. Skeptical of big government and woke politics yet committed to bettering their communities. Believers in the American Dream they had seen their parents achieve — and afraid it was slipping away.
The rancho libertarians I knew were mostly Mexican Americans, but not exclusively — there were Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Peruvians, Colombians. They weren’t Donald Trump fans — he only won 28% of the Latino vote in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, according to the Pew Research Center — but I saw how Latino men could easily cozy up to him. An orange-tinted despot seemed relatively harmless compared to the ones in their ancestral lands, so they didn’t view Trump as much of a threat.
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Quoting Greta(the swedish climate nut), "how dare you!"
“blame Trump’s victory”
WTF?
LA Times, your days are numbered.
Trump’s win was because.... communist scum.
Boy I dont hate many peopple but I hate greta :)
Yeah, “blame”. Arellano has some serious mental issues, but that’s to be expected of the editor of the OC Register.
Attn Gustavo Areliano
Your intellectual incoherence here is pretty obvious. These latino men are supposedly “2 generation Americans proud of their country but see Trump as a mild alternative to the tyrants in their home country”
When you base your article on lies and infantile insults like this you are simply wasting your time. The only people who are listening to your bile laced tirade are those who all ready agree with your radical Alt Left emotion based hysteric vomit. The rest of your readers simply are laughing at your infantile bombast and intellectual incoherence
It is amazing how a republican win always leads to an endless stream of media examination of what went wrong with America, of what went wrong, it is never seen as something that went right.
This election was based on the merit of the candidates. The left doesn’t understand merit based systems.
They think your skin color and gender is more important than your ability to lead and solve problems.
It’s a caner that needs to be eradicated.
Because it is a credit to them!
The entire concept of “blame” is delicious. They are looking for blame everywhere except within their own policies. They will continue to lose bigly if we can keep them from cheating.
One man’s blame is another man’s credit.
Blame? I would say credit!
Maybe one possibility is that Latino males had a “Bud Light” reaction to images from the Biden/Harris administration showing support for fake females. It could have been a last straw for a lot of Latino males.
Excellent observation!!!
So somebody must be “blamed” if the Democrat don’t win an election?
Democracy dies with Democrats.
There is no one to blame. There is only the credit that is due to DJT himself and MAGA.
Another possibility is that Latino males saw that when Trump got shot, he stood up and raised his fist and said “Fight fight fight.” I think they deeply respected him for that. Contrast that with baldy Walz prancing around like a girlie man. A drunk candidate for President and a girlie man for Vice President. The choice for Latino males was easy.
Bump
Ridiculous! Back in June Mexicans voted for Presidenta Claudia in a landslide.
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