Summary
Latino men played a key role in Donald Trump’s election victory, with 43-55% supporting him, drawn by promises of economic relief, job opportunities, and small business support.
Despite higher workforce participation, many Latino men face wage gaps, dangerous jobs, and lower educational attainment compared to other groups.
Some prioritize trade skills or entrepreneurship over college, seeking practical returns on investment.
Experts highlight the need for policies addressing economic barriers, job training, and health coverage to sustain their support.
Future voting will depend on whether these voters see tangible progress in achieving the American Dream.
As a latino man, I can tell you all of these economic reasons are just as bullshit as when white men say it’s their reason for voting for him.
The reason is Machismo. They view Trump as a strong man who does whatever he wants and gets away with it and there are PLENTY of latino men who are very much in favor of this.
Why did Mexico get a woman president? Or Argentina? Or Brazil? Or Nicaragua, or Panama? Chile, Costa Rica and Honduras…? I’m not in saying macho doesn’t exist in Latinos, but I’m struggling to understand how these countries could do it…
American culture magnifies it.
Pickup trucks have evolved from work vehicles into powerful status symbols in American culture. While 75% of truck owners rarely or never use them for towing, they purchase these vehicles as symbols of success, masculinity, and lifestyle choice. In urban and suburban areas, professionals spend $70,000+ on trucks as alternatives to luxury cars, particularly in Southern states where they represent wealth and power. The trend continues growing, with trucks now accounting for 20% of U.S. vehicle sales. Despite minimal towing usage, truck owners display the highest vehicle loyalty rate, with nearly 80% choosing another truck when replacing their current one.
Meanwhile China is slowly working towards global dominance in the EV space which we all know is the future.
The American empire is in that stage of decay where the men are actively lying to themselves about their greatness. The whole manosphere (which originated in the US) is based on that premise.
As they feel themselves sliding further and further into the periphery of relevance, they’ll elect increasingly fascist leaders to try and reassert their dominance, only to be swindled by those they put into power.
It’s all downhill from here.
Maybe the ones that would have stopped it there left their country and came to america?
The reason is Machismo.
You can just say misogyny.
No? It’s a specific attitude among the latino community that extends beyond just misogyny
I’m Latino too, and I agree. Misogyny is a big part, but machismo also covers a specific cultural, historical and toxic attitude between Hispanic men too.
I agree, in Latino culture they perfer voting for conservative strongment like Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Lol. Latino countries elect women as presidents all the time. The US NEVER votes for women, even when they’re running against a disgusting rapist. Looking at the statistics it’s always white people stopping women from being elected. But it’s the Latino minority who are misogynist?
Wild reach! That’s some massive prejudice you’ve got under the hood there.
Insecurity in their own sexuality can lead to both these things.
Yeah. That’s why Mexico’s president is a left-wing feminist woman. Because “machismo”, you’ve got it all figured out. The 60% of US Latinos who have Mexican origin came to the US to run away from her.
That just proved his point. Mexico elected a woman so they went to a country that’s going to have a misogynistic president. Also women outnumbers the men in mexico 51% to 48%.
I seriously can’t tell if you’re kidding.
Apparently a shitload of Mexican men came running over the border since Sheinbaum was elected in June. So they could get away from the woman and vote Trump. Yeah.
Or is it because she’s a mob legacy?
I forgot that part of machismo, where you put aside being macho in order to vote for mobsters. Classic Latino cultural phenomenon.
Per op, machismo would be why you vote for mobsters. That having been said I know nothing on the subject, just correcting your obvious logical fault.
That’s not a logical fault, you just don’t understand what machismo means. It’s specifically referring to a gendered attitude that emphasies male strength and leadership. The idea that mobs are macho and Mexican men are macho but that contributed to the election of a woman is normally the kind of drivel only head injuries and drugs can produce.
It’s because they want to be in the settler class, ie they want to be white. It’s not an irrational strategy, whites in the US have a different relationship to the means of production and other races that were once considered minorities like Irish and Italians, are now treated as white now.
It really has nothing to do with ideology. It’s calculated economic move that many liberals’ ancestors themselves made.
I’m sorry, I can’t stop posting this. If “Did Not Vote” was a candidate, it would have gotten the most electoral votes and won in a landslide:
We can do literally anything: protect the environment, enshrine the rights of women and minorities, hold billionaires and giant corporations accountable, make housing affordable for all, make minimum wage a living wage, etc. The moment we as a country overcome our apathy/despair in enough numbers to make these possible, I’ll blame people who voted for “the other guy”. Until then, we deserve this…
This is true of almost every election (except maybe one or two). Nobody wins every time.
Sure, but one of the choices usually isn’t a full embrace of fascism.
I’m actually kind of surprised there were states that had a plurality for a party.
Tbf, the only votes which matter are in the battle ground states. Electoral college induces the sense of apathy and despair in many instances.
I don’t know about yours, but my ballot had local candidates, judges, ballot measures, etc. I’m not perfect and haven’t voted every time in the past, but people vote even less on midterms when there’s not a presidential election!
Is it just me or does a lot of this post election coverage seem to seek to divide us further? 🧐
This article is delivered with the intended response from those who didn’t want Trump being “man, fucking Latino Men, this is their fault.”
It’s been weird. Talking about specific groups of people and how they supported trump in surprising numbers. I don’t understand the purpose beyond divisiveness.
Whether it’s divisive or not really depends on your perspective and reasoning.
“What voters did we fail to capture, and why?” is a very valuable question to be asking. “Who can we blame?” is not. This article would help answer both of these.
What voters did we fail to capture, and why
The problem with this framing is that it excludes certain answers. If you approach the problem as “voters have good faith issues that we can address” you pre-exclude those issues being bigoted, unreasonable, or naive. If the correct answer to “why Latino men moved toward Trump” is because Harris was a woman, then you’ll be forever blind to that fact while you focus on trivial justifications like pocketbook issues.
“Harris was a woman” is a conclusion designed to shut down criticism and doom us to failure in a state that is uniquely incapable of electing women. Many of the Latino men who supposedly just won’t vote for women come from countries who have elected female leaders without issue. “It’s not our fault, misogyny exists” is the answer if you don’t want to consider any of the other ways in which Harris and the Democrats have failed, and has no solution other than just adopting misogyny ourselves.
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If the data is legitimate, the intelligent conclusion is “how is this group not getting their needs met, such that they choose trump?” “How can this group be understood, such that they can better thier lives without putting others in danger?”
It’s Facebook-brained to conclude “fucking Latino men…”
The issue is that these concerns are almost entirely driven by propaganda instead of reality. It is definitely a phenomenon worth digging into IMO.
This article is delivered with the intended response from those who didn’t want Trump being “man, fucking Latino Men, this is their fault.” It’s been weird. Talking about specific groups of people and how they supported trump in surprising numbers.
The entire article is 84 sentences. There are only 4 sentences that talk about the election, Biden, or Trump.
I don’t understand the purpose beyond divisiveness.
I’m not seeing divisiveness in the article. I’m seeing a perspective I don’t have because I’m not Hispanic. I’m interested in knowing the experiences of others, what challenges they face, what they value, and goals they want to accomplish. This article does quite a bit of those things. These are my fellow Americans and my neighbors. We share society and built it together. We rise together and fall together.
Is it just me or does a lot of this post election coverage seem to seek to divide us further? 🧐
I think you should do some personal examination as to why you see an entire article talking about the needs and wants of a specific group of people with less than 5% of that article mentioning politics/election, and you came away saying this is an article about election divisiveness.
Just like with Reddit: it’s about the headline, not the article content. Same article, different headline? It would be a big stretch to argue it is trying to divide us.
Holy shit get off your high horse.
Talking about specific groups of people and how they supported trump in surprising numbers. I don’t understand the purpose beyond divisiveness.
Since Obama, the political press spends almost all of their time focusing on how different demographics vote. Democratic campaign people bought this idea that “demographics are destiny” and I remember pundit morons even saying things like it might not be possible for a Republican to ever win again given shifting demographics in the country after 2012.
I don’t think people in America necessarily vote this way. Democratic campaigns have too much of a focus group, pseudoscientific approach to electioneering. What’s somewhat amusing about it – or would be if the stakes weren’t as high as they are – is that it is bigoted to think of “demographics” as always voting on the basis of their identities.
Yup, it’s generally half baked science. Now, I will concede that age and education represent something, but all groups are at best proxies for what’s happening to people. But racial groups have always been pretty bad proxies, especially pan-asian and Latino.
We all voted for Trump in shocking numbers. Everyone to the online left, including myself, was apparently wrong about everything this election.
Well except one thing: it came down to the economy. I keep forgetting nothing else matters.
Except that the economy is objectively good, and as soon as a Republican is in office all of these people will mysteriously start saying how good the economy is, as if by magic. The entire narrative is bullshit and is an impossible trap Republicans lay for Democrats every election.
Economy is good under Clinton? Elect Bush!
Economy is good under Obama? Elect Trump! Economy is good under Biden? Elect Trump!Did you know that in 2008, exit polls showed that 60% of Republicans said that the economy was good? This is the issue. Republicans just strategically lie and unless the economy is literally crashing around us, “the middle” absorbs that narrative by osmosis.
What are Democrats supposed to do? Bidenomics was objectively good. 2M new full time jobs vs 2019. 10% inflation adjusted wage growth. Strong stock market, productive legislation, fought for the student loan promise… And people apparently want them to come out and just disavow all this because Republicans and the media lie about it?
2008? The year of the housing crash? Going to go with no, mate. It was not great. A lot of people hurting, myself included.
Biden did have a good economy. By all accounts he handled the inflation masterfully. Better than most other nations. Doesn’t matter because prices skyrocketed and people felt it was handled poorly. All that matters is what they make folks believe.
Republicans just strategically lie and unless the economy is literally crashing around us, “the middle” absorbs that narrative by osmosis.
Exactly this.
Dear readers, for better understanding please read the word “economy” as the phrase “mega yacht money”
I don’t think so. I mean I agree with your point that economy normally means rich people, but I think mega yacht money did well under Biden. It’s the common people who felt the economy was garbage and voted for a changing of the guard.
Thats one of the things I think was most lost on the Biden/Harris team, even my friends who “did well” on paper under Biden, it was usually unrealized gains while the costs wouldn’t tamper down. What good is a 401k doubling if you can’t sell it, or worse had to sell off with penalties, if all your costs are up and due dates are today. Another, is how home values may have went up, but for most people that just meant things like taxes and insurance went up which is just like a loss if they didn’t own multiple homes.
The problem with this though is that it’s often a perception-based thing. The economy can be as good for working people or even better under Democrats and you’ll continually get this drumbeat of “yes but per-capita GDP isn’t a good measure” and “401ks don’t pay the rent” but as soon as a Republican gets into office pundits forget all of this nuance about the “real economy” vs Wall Street and start saying “sure he’s doing x y and z bad things, but how’s your 401k, bro?”.
In reality, the media (including pundits like Joe Rogan and other brocasters) absolutely affects people’s perception of the economy, and continues to perpetuate the “GOP = good for economy” and “Democrats = bad for business” narratives every election cycle. This perception is unmovable even in the face of actual data saying the opposite because the American electorate is full of stupid and loves it a simple, easy to digest narrative.
I’d encourage people to continue beating the drum about how the stock market isn’t the economy through Trump’s term.
I hate when people downplay the economy or employment as trivial or at least not very important. It is important, and for many it is rational to consider it the most important. At an individual level in America, employment means food, shelter, healthcare. It even means companionship… People who can’t afford to date, have a harder time finding love.
At a high level, even if we implemented universal healthcare and fixed our other problems, the health of the economy would STILL dictate our access to food, shelter, and healthcare. A government with no funds cannot sustain programs.
Division is where the money is.
Distraction
they were conned. whatever they’re hoping for, they ain’t see any of it for at least four years.
How is it a con? Trump has no class. That’s exactly what these “hold my beer” voters want and it’s what they get. That don’t care if he grifts as long as the “elite” are annoyed. But they will ultimately hurt from his policies, so that’s when the gymnastics start.
They already got what they were hoping for: owning the libs.
Misogynists and racists are always easily conned, because they’re rubes
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Lol all they are gonna get is a free ride out of the country
80% of Latinos are citizens and those that voted must hold citizenship. Expressing shaudenfraude over the possibility of denaturalization is a level of capitulation so profound it makes it feel as if some of our liberal brethren are invertebrates.
White liberals taking joy in the fact that they and their families can have freedom of choice reinforces age old racial hierarchies. Yes, your uncle might be a racist, sexist, narcissist, but no one is going to question their citizenship over it.
Meanwhile, PoC must vote Democrat and if they don’t, their white liberal compatriots will applaud when they’re put in cages and extricated from the country. The racial hierarchy is reinforced when PoC are not granted agency.
They must vote the way I think is right. Otherwise, I will join hands with my regressive conservative kin and shamelessly capitulate as we take glee in the racial purification of America.
Do you all even believe in what you say you believe in? If these are our allies, who needs enemies?
I’m sure the Jews thought they were fine too, I’m sure their citizenship will help them when they get black bagged onto a bus to sit in a cage with no trial because Karen called ICE
“Latin” is just a code word for white supremacy. It’s no mystery why people vote for racism. They want to be “white”.
lol what? Latin is an old language that’s mostly dead, it’s not really relevant to anything in this article. It’s not a code word for anything.
They’re gonna have a pretty hard time convincing the maga army they are white.
The Irish had to convince Americans they were white and they are pale as they come. good luck to those that aren’t.
