If we don't face the it, I suspect we will continue to see a shift toward the GOP from the Latino community.
To explain Trump’s appeal, Aguilar also pointed to his Administration’s support for religious liberty and the right to life. From early on in his Presidency, Trump made inroads with evangelical leaders, and during his four years in office he talked about the right to life, school choice, and prayer in schools. At a church in Miami, Trump said, “America was not built by religion-hating socialists” but, rather, “by churchgoing, God-worshiping, freedom-loving patriots.”
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It’s not clear how or whether Democrats will combat the momentum felt by Latino Republicans. For some of them, acknowledging Trump’s greater share of the Latino vote amounts to blaming Latinos for the close election, as though they failed to fulfill a promise. Acknowledging the shift could also have consequences for how Democrats think about their coalition, what kind of investments they should make in Latino communities going forward, and what their platform should be on immigration, education, health care, and many other issues.
In the White House, Joe Biden will have the opportunity to show Latinos that they’re important to the Democratic coalition. First, though, Democrats will have to acknowledge that a shift did, in fact, take place. Carlos Odio, of the progressive Latino firm Equis Research, told me that it makes Latino Democrats “uncomfortable” to consider the move by some Latinos toward Trump, because “if you view Donald Trump as being the raging racist that he is, the guy who put Stephen Miller in charge of our immigration system, then people say, ‘Well, shouldn’t it be Latinos who fight back, who lead the charge?’ ” Odio said that, in upcoming elections, he hopes Latinos will get “the white working-class treatment.” He added, “I don’t need a Latino ‘Hillbilly Elegy’—we can pass on that part. But I think the rest of it would be great to see.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-deep-origins-of-latino-support-for-trump
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