To broaden the Dems appeal to Latinos the Democrats need to start trashing Latinos.
I get you're being sarcastic, but it is a legitimate issue.
1. Dems don't understand the Latino community as a whole.
Yes they do. Latinos are generally conservative especially where religion is concerned. That the Dems have been getting the majority of their votes spoke a lot more of the GOP than the Dems.
That speaks to decades gone by where Hispanics were horribly discriminated against. It was liberals that helped fight for their right to be included and not discriminated against. They were incredibly vulnerable and needed help. However, as assimilation and acceptance has much more become the standard, Americans of Hispanic descent don't necessarily feel the need to vote for Democrats anymore. They have the agency and ability to work in jobs that most Americans do. Meanwhile, the Dems still treat them like the vulnerable minority they used to be.
I worked in the construction industry for a good 25 years and the machismo aspect of these cultures is very real. It's a very patriarchal culture and the Dems not only ignored it, they indirectly dismissed it because of the disdain for the male heteros in general. While not the only aspect, it is an important one.
What, are you saying the Dems should have named this guy as the VP nominee?
2. They took these voters for granted and IMO, the Dems probably continued to get a lot of votes this time around simply due to the habit many Latinos voting for them because those who came before them did so.
Did they? How so?
3. The continual influx of immigrants has threatened the jobs they worked for generations to gain ground in. Is this the proverbial "shutting the door behind them"? It probably is, but it's a serious issue that Trump was able to take advantage of using the historic Democratic policy of being weak on immigration. By the time the Dems got around to taking the issue seriously, Trump was able to block their bill without much blowback due to the Dems history of being so flaccid on the issue.
That is exactly what the right-wing has successfully convinced America is the truth. But the reality that the Democrats are the only ones to propose plans (and enact them) on immigrants/illegal immigrants. President Obama needed to bring out an Executive Branch plan because the GOP wouldn't do anything about it. They've had the Trifecta twice since 2001 (including once with Trump!). One of those spans included a six* year long span minus the Sen Jeffords defection in W's first term. W wanted to put a plan forward and the GOP stopped it.
The Democrats aren't flaccid immigration, they just aren't militant and ignore it for political gain.
Well, then that's on the Dems. The idea is to get the message out there in order to win elections. Might such ideological sacrifices be a step back in terms of progressive politics? Absolutely. I really wish that practicality didn't have to subvert ideology, but that's the reality and it always will be.
Look at SCOTUS now and for decades into the future. The Supreme Court says what the law is (see Marbury vs. Madison), which means that, among a lot other things, a lot of right are going to be lost (see abortion). These losses are going to impact the poor, women, and all other groups the Dems claim to care about. When Obergefell is overturned, gay people are going to lose the right to marry.
Maybe some militancy indulged in for political gain would've prevented that. Maybe not, but what is inarguable is that the failure to engage in it hurt us badly.
Rather than recognizing the shift in diversity of these cultures and subcultures, the Dems treated them as a given while at the same time dismissing their concerns.
What shift? Latinos are still Latinos. How the GOP is marketing towards them is changing. Trump made a play for the toxic male vote. And lets remember, latinos didn't swerve MI or WI.
Ah yes, the "toxic male" vote. By current leftist social media standards, that label can and is often applied with a very wide brush to hetero men, regardless of ethnicity, including Hispanic males. As I've said before, this bullshit never made me vote R, and I'll never vote R, but when that message is communicated to young men, well, we saw the results of last week's election.
Given what I've said above, maybe the Latino vote by itself didn't sway those states, but the excoriation of hetero males as a demographic likely did.
