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TexasTowelie

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 11:17 PM 11 hrs ago

FAFO: Three Time Trump Voter Watches ICE Demolish South Texas Construction - The Logical Leftist



Mario Guerrero voted for Donald Trump three times. He's the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association — and when ICE raids began destroying the Rio Grande Valley's construction industry in February 2025, he started speaking out.

A lumber company down 54%. Materiales El Valle, open for 40 years, down 60%. One construction crew arrested mid-pour at 3am, leaving $34,000 of wet concrete in the ground. A cabinet maker with two sons in the US Army held in Dilley for four months.

Today, we go past the mockery and the schadenfreude to apply the Logical Materialist framework to the most important political story in South Texas: how "in-group exemption thinking" was deliberately engineered by the Trump political operation, what it costs when it meets a federal enforcement apparatus that operates on volume not nuance, and why Guerrero's quote — "Nobody's going to vote for you anymore" — may be the most consequential political sentence spoken in Texas in 2025.

This isn't just about FAFO. It's about what happens when propaganda makes you vote for the machine that is now crushing you.
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