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This study illuminates something that even the researchers won't explicitly acknowledge, nor will the GOP: Latinos increasingly see themselves as white-adjacent, which means, among other things, that the law and order message plays well with them 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/biden-latino-vote-strategy.html
Samuel P. Huntington described the predominate socio-cultural-political-religious fabric of the United States as White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It seems that a sizable number of Latinos are, in their own way, willing and able to mesh with that fabric, while also changing it 2/
Law and order, immigration restrictionism, economic populism, things that historically have appealed to mostly white Middle America seem to appeal to Latinos now 3/
Democrat strategists are actually smarter than anyone in the White House if they understand this reality. The Republican Party wants to back off illegal immigration, off politically incorrect rhetoric, and instead frame Joe Biden as... a socialist 4/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/latino-voters-biden-trump/index.html
If you know anything about Latin American populism, you know that it can manifest with a more active state, i.e., what the Stupid Party (GOP) would consider "socialism." Peronism in Argentina was basically "right-wing socialism" 5/
Bolsonaro and the generals in his cabinet have traditionally supported public investment and state enterprises, although they're flirting with neoliberalism now via econ minister Paulo Guedes. AMLO is soft on crime, but he's an economic populist and an old fashion nationalist 6/
The nice thing about the Latino vote is that to get it, the GOP would appear to naturally also pick up white voters, because there seems to be a lot of overlap. But of course, that would require a party not run by idiots, and advised by people like Karl Rove or Jared Kushner 7/
Specifically, white working-class voters, who represent a huge constituency. To get them, the GOP would have to embrace bigger, but more efficient government and pro-labor policies. It would have to promise to make government work for the people again, and fight corporations 8/
But again, that would deeply disturb Karl Rove and Matt Schlapp! What would TPUSA do with all those "big government sucks" shirts and signs? Would the GOP be willing to apologize to the working class for screwing them over good and hard all these years? 9/
Do not respond to this thread with "Latinos are natural conservatives" or you will be deported 10/
All that said I still think that the Latino vote is less important than white working class voters, who are simply more in number. If Trump doesn't recover with them, the bronze race won't be able to help him 11/
