are not morons, and Democrats had bet the farm that they were. And given the modern democrats, Hispanics are not even a good fit.
I think this shows an amazing level of tone-deafness from the leaders on the Left.
Democratic strategist Jefrey Pollock was aghast when speaking with Hispanic voters from South Texas. Sitting in on focus groups, these voters would sound like cranky white guys from red states on immigration. The old assumptions Democrats held about certain voter groups got obliterated this election cycle: Hispanic voters shifted more toward the GOP and Trump, and women voters weren’t energized at all by Kamala Harris, abortion, or the prospect of electing a female president. It’s a massive red flag that perhaps the electorate isn’t woke because most of us aren’t idiots.
… The truth is that liberals cannot be shocked over these results. He’s been heavily criticized among progressive circles, but data scientist David Shor, a self-described lefty, has warned Democrats for years to steer clear of woke shenanigans and doubling-down on bad immigration ideas, like mass amnesty and pathways to citizenship, which even among Hispanic voters was never popular. He wanted Democrats to entrench themselves in areas where they had significant policy advantages over Republicans, namely health care. That didn’t happen, and now we have white left-wingers hoping Hispanics get deported because Trump won.
I think that Lefties are often blinded by the white-hot religious intensity of their beliefs.