Support For Trump Among Latinos Plummets As Many Feel Betrayed Over Scope of Immigration Crackdown
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Support for Donald Trump among Latinos has plummeted, with many saying they feel betrayed by the Republican president

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.”

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
    221·
    2 days ago

    I don’t think that’s an extreme misrepresentation. Trump himself told them exactly what he was going to do, so there was certainly at least some amount of head-burrying-in-sand going on. The main message that was present on Lemmy but not in legacy media was that “Yes, he is in fact going to do what he says he will.”

    There were two possibilities: either you thought he was a doddering idiot that wasn’t going to follow through on anything he said, in which case why in the nine hells would you choose him as your president? Or, he was going to do exactly what he said, in which case, why in the nine hells would you choose him as your president?

    The problem is that most of the people who voted for him were being selectively optimistic about what he would and wouldn’t do. They let him be everything to everyone, and just hand-waved the glaring problems away.

    I don’t know how you can fix this massive self delusion issue without fixing education and teaching people to think critically, but education has been under attack for nearly as long as I can recall in the US.

    That said, I agree this whole “I told you so” attitude isn’t particularly useful, it certainly is cathartic, though.

    • GuyFawkes@midwest.socialEnglish
      141·
      2 days ago

      I’m past the “I told you so” phase, however I’m also over everyone saying things like “they didn’t know” or “give them another chance”. As far as I’m concerned, they’ve got TWO viable options at this point in time:

      1. Find a way to fix what they did. It’ll be expensive, and likely violent, but this shitshow is squarely on the heads of the morons who voted for him, for whatever reason they chose to do so. THEY can fix THEIR OWN mistakes; I’m done helping them out.
      2. Continue to act like they have no ownership, but get the fuck out of the voting population. If they STILL don’t see what the did wrong they’re irredeemable and need to get out of the way. People trying to make them feel better by saying “they didn’t know” or the like aren’t helping fix it, they’re simply giving them cover FOR WHEN THEY DO IT AGAIN. And let’s face it, any dumbass that voted for him AGAIN isn’t going to flip their vote no matter what happens to them personally, so the next best thing is for them to stay home and practice counting to 2.
    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      77·
      2 days ago

      Trump says vague shit all the time. Which that is a prime example of. He wasn’t specific. But he did not say it in a vacuum either. The mass media did a lot to sane wash it. To imply that it wasn’t as sweeping or horrific as it would actually be. And people believed them.

      The mass media does not treat him as a fascistic man child narcissist. They shower him with undo respect and restraint. Thinking in some misguided Nevil Chamberlain sense, that appeasement will save them. Though to be fair plenty of them feel like they are in on it as well.

      To deny that this is the case, that mass media has not failed us, that their failings to be informed are all on them and no one else. Is to dismiss them with the same touch that conservatives dismiss the poor the underserved and minorities. Simply by assuming they all have the exact same access and opportunity that we do. They don’t. Don’t be like conservatives and fascists. Yes people absolutely do need to do more to educate themselves. But we absolutely need to make it clear and easier to find proper sources to do that from and encourage them to do that.

      When you make assumptions based on your personal experience you’ve already lost the debate.