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.”

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    The fact that any of them voted for him is astounding. Did they not listen to a single word from his mouth about hordes of immigrants watering down the blood of America? Did they not see him drag a Hispanic celebrity (Nicky Jam) on stage, only to reveal, before the entire audience that he had no idea who they were, and in fact thought they were a hot woman?

    Like a bunch of turkeys counting down the days to Christmas.

    Doesn’t really matter what they think of him now, they’ll be in an El Salvador concentration camp by the time the next election comes round.

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      They, like most people who voted for Trump were more interested in harming “the opposition” failing to realize 90% of people were the opposition despite Trump saying it loud and proud. As a liberal white millionaire I am still confused and concerned at how many idiots I am trying to lift up are encasing their feet in concrete, and a little voice says “maybe it’s their nature and you should give them what they ask for.”

      I’m disgusted by this all around, don’t turn me into what I fucking hate.

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    Unfortunately a lot of the latino vote comes from the religious, macho, and anti-liberal attitudes they hold. Lots of them are catholic, and even if the republicans are absolutely full of shit when it comes to being “Christian”, their propaganda claiming they are has been very effective. The latter two are in a way perversely tied together. They like macho “strong man” leaders, but unfortunately there are a lot of latin/hispanic countries run by strong man leaders claiming to be liberal leftists that are nothing more than tyrants and authoritarians that wreck their countries. So they vote anti-liberal, associating liberal with tyrants, while supporting yet another “strong man” fascist that will fuck the country up.

    *I am not latin, however I worked in a latin country and have worked with several latin/hispanic people and learned what I could about their country, culture and politics, and this is how it was explained to me.

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      latinos down south have been brainwashed and indoctrinated since thier parents immigrated here decades ago,.

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    No fucking way! I don’t feel sorry for any Latinos or Hispanics that voted for Trump. Ya’ll are traitors to democracy and our constitution for installing a dictator. You think people would learn from the dictatorship countries they fled.

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    “I just don’t understand why he betrayed Us, I mean… he did nothing but campaign on open contempt for our people, but surely he cant be held accountable for that! This is just so unexpected and blindsiding us!”

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      My Spanish is near non-existent but I was still able to read this perfectly.

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      Even worse, these are people that voted for the leopards that explicitly said they’d eat YOUR faces party, thought they must surely just be joking, or something!

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    The thing is RELIGION. Most Latinx people are religious and more specifically Catholics. Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic. All Trump had to do was show how much he hates women and the LGBTQ+ community and a lot of Latinx were willing to ignore his racism because they thought Trump would help them punch down on women and gay people. They thought they would avoid getting their faces eaten by the leopard by offing the faces of others in sacrifice to the leopard.

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      Latinx

      Don’t say this, just say Latin if you don’t want to gender or people from the Americas if you want to refer to Central/South Americans

      Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic.

      I agree but you’re ignoring the “i’m one of the good ones” mentality

      Trump says he’s only going after criminals, that couldn’t be me.

      It’s like when he says legal immigrants cheating the system and legal immigrants love it because they know they didn’t cheat so it must be other ones

      But you do highlight why PR isn’t a state. Democrats don’t want another Republican state and Republicans don’t like white people speaking Spanish

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    LOL? Betrayed?

    This is the fucking party, chuckleheads. They want you gone. Doesn’t matter if you were born here.

    Stop voting for these motherfuckers. Not one Republican should ever be allowed into office.

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    The question is, will voters learn from this? Will they understand that when the president and his crew are straight up Nazis – and congressional republicans do nothing to stop them because they support a Nazi agenda – that the whole Republican party is now a Nazi party?

    There won’t be any “reasonable” Republicans to vote for going forword; they are all Nazis now.

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        I used to live in a heavily Hispanic area, and I can tell you there absolutely will be nothing learned from any of it.

        Cause any Republican attacks against Hispanics were always hand-waved away with some variant of “Of course, they’re talking about (insert Hispanic group the speaker hates), not about the good ones like (insert Hispanic group the speaker belongs to). If it wasnt for (hated group) fucking it all up things would be better for all of us!”

        Republicans don’t make such distinctions, to Republicans all Hispanics are just Mexicans.

        Which is how the leopards facial feast was laid out.

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          They’re not unique in that regard. All his supporters will hand-wave away anything that affects them negatively.

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      It would help if the other side wasn’t “vote for us or we’ll let the nazis destroy the country to spite you.”

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    “His whole life has consisted of nothing but lying, backstabbing, betrayal and treason. Who could have ever imagined he’d keep doing that?”