I mean I expected him to avoid talking about how he's never going to deliver on that promise, but I didn't expect it to disappear this conspicuously. I think hating on BLM and doing performative Blue Lives shit has replaced it as the symbolic representation of white supremacy in his campaign.

    • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Trump got 29% in 2016, Romney got 27% in 2012, McCain got 31% in 2008, and Bush got 40% in 2004. It doesn't really look like the GOP is doing better with Latino voters.

      • kilternkafuffle [any]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, I think the GOP's strength is in keeping the rich/old/White/male turn out high by preaching racism/classism, and depressing everyone else's through active disenfranchisement, limited voting locations/long lines, and corporate media shitting on the idea of real change. Also the FTFP/rural states, keeping out DC/Puerto Rico, and gerrymandering. And this year it'll be through however they ratfuck voting by mail.

    • JayTwo [any]
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      4 years ago

      How much of them are just Gusanos being Gusanos, though?

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      And the thing is, the Democrats could have prevented the GOP from peeling away Latino votes, if they actually had, you know, shown that they actually cared about Latinos. But everything the Dems have done over the last 10+ years has shown they don't give one flying fuck about any demographic other than relatively well-off suburban white voters.

    • Moonrise [comrade/them,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      why are latinos voting republican? trumps whole thing is fuck latinos. I would expect them to be the last group to vote for him.