New polling conducted by Somos Votantes and the Global Strategy Group between August 26 and September 4 shows that Trump’s net approval rating among Latino voters has dropped from -11 points in February to -23 points in September.
His favorability rating has seen a similar drop, from -12 points in February to -20 points in September.
1.This soon won’t matter since the plan is to purge the country of anyone vaguely looking latino. Remember the “homebrew” comment on El Salvador’s prison expansion?
2.What kinds of latinos were supporting Trump? You can speculate. At least we know what kind was not supporting him: “Smart people don’t like me!”.
Like sheep voting for a wolf. I mean he told them to their face " I hate you, you are not human, you are lower than dirt, and I will come after all of you"
I dunno, I probably wouldn’t have voted for the guy.
Didn’t a whole bunch of Latino voters throw their support behind him?
Somewhat of a “chickens for KFC” moment there, eh?
Little late now, assholes.
Just now? Slow on the uptake
…now that it doesn’t matter what is approval is.
The leopards be feasting
Any Latino who voted for Trump fucking deserves anything they’re getting now. It’s not like he didn’t tell them exactly how he feels about them for the past decade of American politics.
I told my Mexican brother and wife that I’m going to laugh so hard at them when they eventually get deported, despite both being second generation Americans.
I love my brother but he married a racist piece of shit who is being influenced by her loud, obnoxious ass; I hope they both get what they voted for. Personally I’m not worried about myself because I’m light-skinned, have a white last name, and was raised white by my Polish dad, so I look and act white (brother and sister-in-law are very brown). Only other Mexicans can recognize my mixed race I’ve noticed.
I remember I would tell my dad over and over again “I hope you get everything your voting for, I hope you get the tarriffs, I hope you get the mass deportations, I hope Trump cuts interest rates to 0% causing inflation to skyrocket, I hope Trump cleans out the federal govt, I hope he does everything he says he’s going do cause America needs to learn its fucking lesson”
I stand by everything I said.
America will learn nothing and millions of underprivileged will suffer enormously.
For the life of me, I have no idea how he ever managed to convince Latino voters to support him in the 1st place.
Latino guys in trucks working blue collar jobs feel more like white Republican guys to them than liberal democrats. Only problem is that the gop doesn’t think that.
Chickens for McNuggets. The first rule of immigration is shit all over other immigrants.
Latino culture is just very conservative by nature. There’s a lot of factors, religion, (family) education, traditions and just how their communities operate. It’s more telling that Trump literally has to threaten deportation or extermination to get them to break ranks than his rhetoric for the past decade, let alone prior to that. If Latinos didn’t have brown skin they’d be the model republican. And somehow that drives the power center of the party up a fucking wall thanks to their racist views.
None of that should matter if you have and use a brain.
Conservative politics, as John Staurt Mills pointed out, attracts.stupid people. Not.all conservatives are stupid.of course, many are just grifters etc.
“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative” h . John Stuart Mill
And Cipllola defines a stupid person as someone who hurts others even if they hurt themselves.
You have the perfect intersection here of conservative and stupid.
You remember we are talking about conservatives, who are conditioned to shut off their brain, avoid any critical thinking and take what ever “good” people tell them as though it were gospel.
Trump didn’t win the Latino vote, Biden lost it. The same goes for the 2024 election. It was a rejection of Democratic Party establishment, not a Trump victory.
To all you Latino voters that voted for this pile of shit, especially you Cuban Americans in Florida that should 100% know better…
Fuck you and feed the leopard.
Many Cubans still support Trump .:)
How about fuck you and get out.
Go fuck yourself
I meant to the Trump voters, not you. I should have been more clear.
Should’ve been zero to begin with
This is net approval, 0 is a good number to have.
Why gee, 8 months later, the latinos who inexplicably voted for the guy who spat right in their face finally realize he’s not their friend?
MAGA voters of all stripes ain’t too bright I guess…
I think a lot of it comes down to news and education. Every bit of media they consume assured them that Trump was a no-nonsense tough guy who would tackle head on some of the issues that were of genuine concern to them. There are billions of dollars that go into manipulating the landscape in all kinds of ways to make sure that is all they were presented with. And so, that’s the basis they decided on. What else could they do?
Sure, you and me exist in a media landscape where that’s a laughable joke, but I don’t think you can necessarily blame them for not having lucked their way into the same places that we exist on. The white people, who were waving around signs saying “Mass Deportations Now” and then got all upset when it turned around on them, I think you can blame, but I think a lot of people of a lot of different ethnicities and backgrounds just got fooled by all the propaganda that is so polished and professional at this point.
There are billions of dollars that go into manipulating the landscape in all kinds of ways to make sure that is all they were presented with. And so, that’s the basis they decided on. What else could they do?
That’s an argument against democracy never working…
Millions of people didn’t vote for Trump,.so how come they didn’t ?
It’s a really good question. So democracy isn’t a magic bullet. Putin gets elected every term, Hitler got elected (more or less). One element of democracy actually working the way it’s supposed to is the freedom to vote, but also one element of it is subjecting the machinery that selects candidates to people’s meaningful input, one element of it is a free enough media and educational system so that people will be able to put their votes in with some understanding and knowledge behind them.
Right now, we sort of have the first, kind of, but the second and third elements the US just doesn’t have. It’s barely functioning. I think it’s not really surprising that the results we’re getting are so objectively horrifying. I just want to describe the problem in terms of how it actually developed. This whole diagnosis where “Of course the Latinos had perfect knowledge of what Trump was going to do, but they voted for him anyway, so now it’s their fault that it’s coming true after they voted for him” is just very obviously not true to me. Obviously they were fooled in some sense about it, because he planning to directly endanger them and their families’ safety, so we need to get to the bottom of how that happened and what can be done about it in the future. I do think there is some role played by, roughly speaking, “Latino culture is macho in some ways and Trump did macho messaging that appealed to them.” But saying that’s the whole way it happened (as some people are apparently) is 1,000% missing the point to me.
What else could they do?
Have memories that go back to 2016-2020
That is the thing that bothers me. EVERYONE that could have voted in 2024 was old enough to remember the first Trump term.
Oh fuck that, quit letting idiots off the hook for being idiots. There was, and still is, an absurd amount of information readily available about how shitty Trump is. If the people you’re talking about cared at all they could have found it easily, but they didn’t. That’s not anyone else’s fault but theirs.
“Why don’t they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get educated about it”
Wikipedia is right there in a number of languages. Not asking people to do academic research, read above a 6th grade level, or leave their house.
Yeah if reading something is too high of a bar for the average person to clear then I will happily admit that my expectations of humanity are too high.
Brother listening to the man speak was too high of a bar.
Don’t be a fucking contrarian for idiots. They spend a DECADE shouting about how the liberals are trying to slander poor Donald, oh the awful things they say about him! How could they?
They chose not to accept the truth. That’s on them at this point.
But this was the first Trump presidency. They had gone through it before. They knew what was going to happen.
Attention spans are short.
You see how fast everyone totally forgot about COVID-19?
Attention spans are short is a valid explanation, but not a valid excuse to escape blame.
Oh, well, that’s OK then?
The right has not forgotten about Covid, they remember it as a hoax and make fun of people who got vaccinated. Comes up often when the measle outbreak hits the news.
Forgot about what, now?
Attention and political memory are very short, especially if you don’t closely follow and understand the things being done in the legislature.
This was entirely about religious conservative Latinos not liking LGBT+ people, especially Trans people. This was all about “we support the Catholic religion, get these trans people out of the sports and bathrooms.”
Their lack of compassion and hypocrisy among religious Latinos came back to bite their own community in the ass like an ouroboros eating its own tail. Yes these people are to blame for voting for Trump and the ensuing policies. The policies were not secret, ignorance is not an excuse for poor voting choices.
Don’t forget the rampant racism/colorism in the latino community!
My guy this is racist as fuck
Let’s say I hate religious people. That is prejudiced, but not racist. Religious Latinos are a subset of religious people and therefore if I were to hate all religious people, I would also hate religious Latinos. That wouldn’t necessarily entail that I would hate all Latinos.
Draw the Venn Diagram again because you did it wrong the first time.
I am not saying whether I actually hate all religious people because I’m not even sure if I’m allowed to say that on lemmy.
BTW, I’ve been fucked in the ass by Latinos, that’s with an s. You don’t know who I am and your conclusions are just wrong.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not…
“The lack of compassion and hypocrisy among the blacks came back to bite their own community in the ass”
“The lack of compassion and hypocrisy in the LGBTQ+ community came back to bite their own community in the ass”
See the problem now?
It’s not automatically racist just to discuss significant problems in a particular racial community in a direct fashion of course… but just dismissing Latino support for Trump as a problem of “it’s because they are bigoted hypocrites QED” is a bunch of racist crap.
If LGBT+ people voted as a large block for Trump because he only said vile things about transgenders, and transgenders represent a minority of the LGBT+ community, and then Trump decided to send all the LGBT+ people to “mental quarantine camps,” I would say something very similar about lack of compassion and ignorance biting them in the ass. However, that didn’t happen, did it?
If LGBT+ people voted as a large block for Trump because
… and then you filled in your theory for what the “because” was that caused the Latino community to vote for him.
If your “because” were completely accurate, I’d agree with you. But it’s not. And since it’s not, and because you’re implying that every single religious Latino as a bloc has that hateful attitude and using that as your jumping off point, it’s racist.
Anything else I can help you with?
So saying a group who voted for a bigot are bigoted is bigoted?
It wouldn’t be racist if you had said they were bigoted (Although I do think it would be wrong, I think the issue is more awareness and education than it is just innate bigotry. They obviously didn’t fully know what Trump was about, by definition, or they wouldn’t have voted for him.)
Since you said the whole grouping is hypocritical and lacks compassion, that’s the racist part. IDK how you can’t see that, but it seems like you’re just determined not to see it for whatever reason.
I realized how stupid people were when I was younger (late teens). I always figured that I had to out think a handful of people to accomplish whatever it was I wanted to do.
Mind you that there are a lot of people smarter than me (IQ) or that have more “common sense” but the combination of the two is rare.
Anyone with eyes should be able yo see how shit Trump is but they don’t and it hurts my brain.
If you have any sense at all please run for local office and please push democratic socialist views.
There really isn’t a better self confidence boost that interacting with trump supporters. It’s almost zero effort and instantly clear the difference is measurable in magnitudes.
It was wild how high it was to begin with. I used to work with such a dude. His parents came illegally but he was a citizen and would basically say “fuck you, I got mine” about all the “wetbacks” coming in. Working with that guy felt like being in the Clayton Bigsby skit from Chapelle Show.
They won’t be able to vote, so it doesn’t matter.
2028 will only be white, cis, land-owning men voting.
And even their votes won’t count. The numbers will be mostly made up.
I was gonna say, I’m of the demographic and they’d still find a way to take my vote because of living in a blue city.
Take your vote because of (not voting the right way)
Just as the founding fathers intended
And this is why Trump is going to create an emergency or declare war before the 2026 elections.
with certainty. USA will be bombing Venezuela by next summer.
have you been on tiktok (and seen the propaganda)? we’ll be in a civil war before winter.
