Trump comes off as strong which means he demands respect in Spaniard culture.
He’s not quite the classic Caudillo since he lacks sunglasses and shag carpet epaulets, but he’s the closest version you’ll get in a WASP.
But it’s very interesting. The Rats make the mistake of thinking of Mexicans, Cubans and all other flavors of “hispanics” as the same: poverty stricken losers who agree with them on abortion, homosexuality, and Socialist government schemes.
The truth is that Spaniard society is culturally conservative - to a fault. Their societies are positively troglodyte - which means they are still tribal based corruptocracies. That’s their main problem to move forward. But they don’t come here to dress in pink and kill their children. It’s primarily economic. If they end up voting, they just want to know how much they’re going to make out of it. They don’t want their boys ending up pretending to be little girls: it’s the worst insult you can level at a hispanic.
Trump will likely do well among non-Mexican hispanics. The Mexicans have their own political axe to grind with us Gringos: Ju tooks our land!
But that isn’t the case with Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, etc. A significant fraction of them were not put off by his aggressiveness last night. On the contrary...
“Trump comes off as strong which means he demands respect in Spaniard culture.”
The whole Machismo thing.
The Spanish and Portuguese languages are divided into masculine and feminine forms depending on who is being spoken to/about.
It’s the basis of their whole societal identity.
Take Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil as an example. The opposition tried to kill him. He took it in stride and came out of it looking like the Strong Man and the opposition wound up looking like weaklings hiding behind paid assassins.
Game. Set. Match.