Summary
Latino voters shifted significantly toward Donald Trump in 2024, driven largely by concerns over inflation, jobs, and immigration.
Trump garnered 45% of the Hispanic vote, a 13-point increase from 2020 and the highest for a Republican since 2004.
His economic message resonated, especially among Latino men, with many seeing him as a businessman focused on financial priorities over social issues. Immigration concerns also played a role, with some Latinos supporting Trump’s tougher stance on border control.
However, Latinas largely favored Kamala Harris, prioritizing issues like women’s rights.
Leave the place you were born for a better life. Then proceed to vote for the same policies, regulations, and laws that made it a shithole.
I have a Mexican coworker who voted for Trump over a single issue: he believes Trump pulled the FBI and CIA out of Mexico, which stopped them selling guns to the cartels.
Not only is this not true, it shows that he’s voting for Trump solely for the benefit of Mexico. Honestly, to my mind, that’s not a bad reason to deport someone (which—as a citizen—he can’t be, I know).
So they voted for the guy who’s stated goals of adding high tariffs to all imports and doing mass deportations of workers necessary to the agriculture industry will fuck the economy royally. Yeah, that makes sense.
It took me a long time to figure this out.
Trump lies with every breath. Even his supporters don’t believe the literal truth of his words. They instead replace the literal meaning of his words, with the more broad idea that he’s talking about the thing they like, in a way other politicians don’t. That nebulous ephemeral feeling is what they are voting for.
Of course they can’t understand that, let alone express it coherently. Which is why all their reasons are such incoherent straw-grasping.
And it literally happens right here on lemmy: https://lemm.ee/post/46717894/16004361
Makes no sense at all. Every time a GOPer is in power it has adverse effects on the economy. Every damn time!
Right? Democratic administrations have done better in almost every case for the last 75 years!
For well over a decade economists and other social scientists have documented a strong advantage in economic performance during Democratic administrations. A new Economic Policy Institute report updates this work to the latest data available and confirms that this Democratic advantage persists. Positive indicators like growth in gross domestic product (GDP), income, and wages are faster, while negative indicators like unemployment, inflation, and interest rates are lower. Further, the fruits of economic growth are distributed substantially more equally under Democratic presidents.
Every single person who voted for trump because of the economy is an idiot and a monster. Across the board.
If they’re an idiot who doesn’t know, they aren’t a monster, but a victim of a con.
It’s the people who DO know because they aren’t idiot’s, that are the monsters.
It might seem pedantic. But it really is an important distinction.
Agreed. Everyone who voted for Trump is either an idiot or a monster. I think most of them fall into the former category. Every Trump voter I’ve talked to who has said they “did their own research” to inform their vote has pointed to information they got from fringe sites and outlets they were initially linked to via social media. Not one mentioned looking at Trump’s campaign website, the Wikipedia article on him, much less any of the critical articles about him in legitimate news sites. These are ignorant people with no critical thinking skills.
It is your responsibility to be an informed voter. Stop infantilizing adults who should know better.
“Surely the leopards won’t eat my face”
- These guys probably
They’re voting for Trump because they’ve vaguely heard he’s a good businessman (From who? Who possibly could be the source of this reputation?). It’s just voting based on the general feeling of hearing the words “good businessman” and “better for the economy” alongside Trump.
The logic is more like, “I like leopards, I like to eat, and I like my face. I know who I’m voting for.”
