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Why are some Latinos drifting to the right? (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Trump: Threatens mass deportation and actually does child kidnapping. Courts: Stops him. Trump: Starts "apply on your side" asylum policy. Biden: Keeps policy.

Trump: Threatens to build giant wall. Steals money from the military to build it. Courts: Stops him. Trump: Builds a smaller wall through a butterfly sanctuary. Biden: Keeps building the smaller wall.

Trump: Threatens to put razor wire flotilla out in the Rio grand. Texas: Does it. Biden: Tries to remove it. Courts: Stops him.

I think what latinos see is Biden is just what Trump would be like if he checked first with the courts before doing anti-Latino stuff. Biden needs to do PRO-latino stuff, not just try to stop anti-latino stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The funding that was already appropriated for the wall? You want Biden to go full dictator and change how previously allocated funds are spent? Really? That doesn’t seem like a bad precedent to you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If funds are allocated to an executive controlled department, he can have a say on how they are spent, as long as the funding purpose wasn't stipulated by congress. If prior executive controlled funding decisions were set in stone, Trump could have stipulated contruction of a golden statue of Biden holding a sign saying "I stole the election" on his last day and Biden would be powerless to stop the contruction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The wall funding was appropriated by Congress, as I just said.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Because no one likes to assume the the color of their skin or the language they speak means more than what they believe. Democrats are arrogant.

On the other hand, Republicans might actually put people against a wall for the color of their skin or the language they speak. But no one likes being taken for granted.

Edit: or to put it more bluntly, "promises made, promises... still being made! Shut up if you don't vote for us what are your options!!??"

Well. Our options are the other option. Not ideal, but at least they're really excited to see brown and black people give cover to white supremacy. Democrats aren't excited about brown and black support--they assume they deserve it.

I'm sure that hurts the feelings of the NPR-class of Democrats, but the numbers don't lie. Even Colin Jost makes the joke at the correspondents' dinner.

It's like when leftists get pissy the the working class keep voting against their interests but don't do anything to appeal to the working class.

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