Posted on 03/01/2022 7:55:45 PM PST by Hojczyk
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Mayra Flores, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, has done much of her campaigning in South Texas in Spanish. She has heard one phrase repeatedly from voters as she and other candidates try to become the first Republicans to represent the Rio Grande Valley in Congress.
¿Y nosotros?
And what about us?
“I hear every day that they’re tired — they feel that there is so much attention and help being given to the immigrants,” Ms. Flores said. “The attention’s on all these illegal immigrants, and not on them.”
Grievance politics, it turns out, translates.
Donald J. Trump’s brand of populism has been widely viewed as an appeal to white voters: Republicans around the country continue to exploit the fear that the left is attacking religious values and wants to replace traditional white American culture with nonwhite multiculturalism. But similar grievances have resonated in the Rio Grande Valley in a profound way, driving the Republican Party’s successes in a Democratic stronghold where Hispanics make up more than 90 percent of the population.
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Legal immigrants hate illegals…the stupid party could not figure that out…
Trump new it from visiting his construction sites..
“the stupid party could not figure that out”
The stupid party doesn’t care, either. They work cheaper.
Beto is in for a bit of a surprise.
Saw this coming over 15 years ago! Surprised it’s taking so long for this to take root.
In 2016, the Rio Grande Valley, true to historic form, went strongly for Mrs. Clinton. Then they saw Mr. Trump’s wall…. and THEY LIKED IT!
Identity politics Is the Democrat Party’s Achilles heel. People are more than the sum of their demographic categories. The Democrats have bought into the false intersectionality bull—-t and we should beat them into th ground with it.
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