The Latino Constituency: So What's the Plan?
I'm hoping the Lincoln Project can come up with a way to SLAUGHTER Trump on this Goya thing.
But if he doesn't, how can the Biden campaign capitalize on Latino disgust for Trump's tacky push of Goya products, and Goya CEO saying we are "blessed" to have Trump?
It would be great if we could build a strong Latino constituency. Trump has called Latinos "rapists and drug dealers", has caged the children at the border, is building a wall, got the entire country in a shouting match about Latinos seeking asylum in 2018, has diminished Puerto Rico in the midst of a hurricane disaster, has tried to end Obama's DREAMERS program.
Latinos do not love Trump. How do we get them to fall in love with Biden?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/15/trump-latino-support-goya-2020-364856
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-posts-photo-alongside-goya-amid-ethics-breach-claims-2020-7
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Back in 2008, 2010, and 2012 white supremacists voices among the Republicans, examined how to stop losing elections, and instead of admitting they needed to integrate, insisted all they needed to do was reach OUT to the large LatinX percentages -- not bring them in, just mostly throw them a bone in the form of easing up on using undocumented Hispanic immigrants as surrogates for their spiteful abuse (they want to get rid of Hispanic citizens but can't).
Black conservatives (and there are a bunch of them chafing in the Democratic Party) were dismissed without even consideration of OUT-reach. The White Man's Party didn't want them either and refused to give them anything that would draw more than a handful of tokens.
As for who's the White Man's Party, how COULD that be anyone but the Republican Party? There are only two that count, and other, the Democratic Party, is a liberal party made up of factions representing every racial, religious and cultural group in our extremely diverse nation, including a number of diverse but mostly allied Hispanic groups.
The White Christian Man's Party, in service to RW billionaires, is what the Republican Party has been doubling down as since the 1990s. They realized they could no longer win national elections honestly, but instead of integrating they decided to purge their party of moderates, steal elections, and end democracy when they could, becoming very extreme, racist, corrupt and betraying in the process.
They've always been way behind Democrats in electing women to office, btw, but these past couple of elections they've also been doubling down on "male power" and have been purging Repub women who were in office. Low 20s before 2018, Repub congresswomen are now 13 out of a caucus of nearly 200 and so badly treated by many male colleagues that some said they leaving congress for that reason. Also didn't want to be primaried by their own party.
Strong LatinX conservatives aren't going to vote for us, no matter what. But they can go to work routing the racist trumpsters in red districts and states and stopping the white supremacy turn the right has taken. I can't of anything more demoralizing for those who badly need to be stopped, for their own sake as well as everyone else's, than to lose control of their political bastion of imagined supremacy.
