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Summary

Trump's support among Latinos has plummeted as he nears his first 100 days in office, with many saying they feel betrayed by the scope of his policies, particularly immigration enforcement.

Almost three in four Latinos (72%) now disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president.

Many Venezuelans, for example, have been impacted by the decision to revoke their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they're going to come take me somewhere I won't be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 5 hours ago

The fact that any of them voted for him is astounding. Did they not listen to a single word from his mouth about hordes of immigrants watering down the blood of America? Did they not see him drag a Hispanic celebrity (Nicky Jam) on stage, only to reveal, before the entire audience that he had no idea who they were, and in fact thought they were a hot woman?

Like a bunch of turkeys counting down the days to Christmas.

Doesn't really matter what they think of him now, they'll be in an El Salvador concentration camp by the time the next election comes round.

[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

On a different note there's a new NGO called "Watch for diabetic Leopards" it seems leopards have been overfeeding in the last months and some are getting diabetes due to being overweight

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"Latinos" learning that thinking you're "white" isn't the same as having white privilege.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/election-trump-latino-vote-paola-ramos

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

The question is, will voters learn from this? Will they understand that when the president and his crew are straight up Nazis -- and congressional republicans do nothing to stop them because they support a Nazi agenda -- that the whole Republican party is now a Nazi party?

There won't be any "reasonable" Republicans to vote for going forword; they are all Nazis now.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

It would help if the other side wasn't "vote for us or we'll let the nazis destroy the country to spite you."

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

will voters learn from this?

History says no.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I used to live in a heavily Hispanic area, and I can tell you there absolutely will be nothing learned from any of it.

Cause any Republican attacks against Hispanics were always hand-waved away with some variant of "Of course, they're talking about (insert Hispanic group the speaker hates), not about the good ones like (insert Hispanic group the speaker belongs to). If it wasnt for (hated group) fucking it all up things would be better for all of us!"

Republicans don't make such distinctions, to Republicans all Hispanics are just Mexicans.

Which is how the leopards facial feast was laid out.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

They're not unique in that regard. All his supporters will hand-wave away anything that affects them negatively.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

"His whole life has consisted of nothing but lying, backstabbing, betrayal and treason. Who could have ever imagined he'd keep doing that?"

[–] derry@midwest.social 3 points 5 hours ago

More faces are needed to feed the machine

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago

"I just don't understand why he betrayed Us, I mean.. he did nothing but campaign on open contempt for our people, but surely he cant be held accountable for that! This is just so unexpected and blindsiding us!"

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No fucking way! I don't feel sorry for any Latinos or Hispanics that voted for Trump. Ya'll are traitors to democracy and our constitution for installing a dictator. You think people would learn from the dictatorship countries they fled.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, but those were Communist dictatorships. Capitalist dictatorships are a-okay! (or so they thought.)

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Scream communist and create a Banana Republic. As long as USA is in charge.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I love my Latino brothers and sisters in the world but I will never understand why a single one of them support Donald trump. it makes no fucking sense at all.

[–] breezeblock@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of Catholics are socially conservative.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

There's a big difference between conservative and supporting your own oppressor.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Something something about leopards eating faces…..

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

Even worse, these are people that voted for the leopards that explicitly said they'd eat YOUR faces party, thought they must surely just be joking, or something!

[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago

Not betrayed. Victims of their own stupidity. A bunch of ladder pullers.

[–] MoreTea@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If only someone had told them ...

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

We never could have seen this coming!

^/s^

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 7 points 10 hours ago

After all this still 28% approves? Guess I need to call the White House and ask to tighten the knot a bit more then? /s

Latino here, these people are morons

https://youtu.be/3f8SG9wkiFw

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 21 points 14 hours ago

just like military vets,"suckers and losers, whats in it for them"-donald trump.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What's the word for leopard in uh.. Spanish?

[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

El Opardo!

Source: i don’t know Spanish at all

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago

in this case it would jaguars and pumas.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 56 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

If you voted Trump as a Latino, that's a special sort of stupid.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 17 points 17 hours ago

They'll vote for whoever replaces him too. Nobody had learned any real lesson.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago

latinos down south have been brainwashed and indoctrinated since thier parents immigrated here decades ago,.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago

LOL? Betrayed?

This is the fucking party, chuckleheads. They want you gone. Doesn't matter if you were born here.

Stop voting for these motherfuckers. Not one Republican should ever be allowed into office.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 13 points 16 hours ago

In 2020 the democrats were calling the border wall racist and they won, then in 2024 it was "we're the ones who are actually gonna build the wall, Trump's all talk." They literally tried to position themselves to the right of Republicans on the issue in order to win over the mythical centrists, and predictably what happened was that their support among Latinos broke down.

A lot of these people are religious and conservative, but were willing to vote for Democrats as long as there was substantial differences on race/immigration. But even if they were the "lesser evil" on immigration from a pro-immigrant perspective - something which they denied as hard as they could, by the way - if the difference didn't appear substantial any more, if it was framed in technical arguments about how to do it rather than moral arguments about what to do, then many of them no longer saw it as damning and voted based on other issues where they're more aligned with Republicans.

This is often what swing voters actually look like, by the way, and why pivoting to the right to capture them is often counterproductive. It turns out pivoting right on an issue where doing so directly harms millions of people so you can appeal to the dozen or so people who like Dick Cheney loses elections. Swing voters are a lot more complex than the idiotic "conventional wisdom" that just has everyone at a different point on a one dimensional left-right scale.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The thing is RELIGION. Most Latinx people are religious and more specifically Catholics. Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic. All Trump had to do was show how much he hates women and the LGBTQ+ community and a lot of Latinx were willing to ignore his racism because they thought Trump would help them punch down on women and gay people. They thought they would avoid getting their faces eaten by the leopard by offing the faces of others in sacrifice to the leopard.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Latinx

Don’t say this, just say Latin if you don’t want to gender or people from the Americas if you want to refer to Central/South Americans

Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic.

I agree but you’re ignoring the “i’m one of the good ones” mentality

Trump says he’s only going after criminals, that couldn’t be me.

It’s like when he says legal immigrants cheating the system and legal immigrants love it because they know they didn’t cheat so it must be other ones

But you do highlight why PR isn’t a state. Democrats don’t want another Republican state and Republicans don’t like white people speaking Spanish

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 9 points 16 hours ago

Fucking duh. Latinos here in Canada have been laughing at you.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 71 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, what did they expect?

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 60 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It sure sucks when a leopard eats your face.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

he was always going to betray hispanic people, the gop never liked them.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

I see no betrayal here. He said what he was going to do, and the trees voted for the axe.

[–] cj2127@lemm.ee 14 points 18 hours ago

As a fellow Latino, I feel nothing for them.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 188 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Oh darn! If only somebody had warned them about what would happen...

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I’m just so entirely unsympathetic to absolutely any minority who voted for the overt racist. Like, genuinely, holy fuck, you are genuinely not allowed to be surprised by his racism. It is now, and always was, one of his primary features.

And I have a special tier of bafflement towards the handful of Arab-American communities in the upper Midwest that apparently voted for him, and are now shocked that his policies are way worse than the absolutely horrible and myopic policies of Biden. Genuinely: How in the ever loving fuck are you surprised by that? He tried to ban any non-Saudi Muslims from coming into the country in his first term. How are you possibly surprised. HOW.

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