The New York Times has found a new boogeyman (or boogey-mujer) in its racial politics narrative. The Times is now super worried about radical, “far-right” Latinas, who are “embracing the extreme” by holding … well, mainstream conservative positions that a lot of Hispanic people hold.
Writing for the Times, Jennifer Medina details all the issues these supposedly far-right Latinas are extreme on. The best is that newly elected Texas Rep. Mayra Flores and fellow Texas candidate Monica De La Cruz have supported conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. That is an embarrassing position that is far too common among Republican candidates and politicians. Yet it is also common among their Democratic counterparts, as seen during the 2018, 2016, 2004, and 2000 elections, among others — and yes, that includes the 2020 election cycle.
Aside from that, these Latinas support “traditional values,” for crying out loud! We can’t have that.
Flores’s campaign slogan, the Times dutifully reports, was “God, family, country.” What next? Will they all be handling snakes?
Medina writes that Flores, De La Cruz, and fellow Texas Latina Cassy Garcia “share right-wing views” on immigration, abortion, and other issues. All three support “restricting immigration and building the border wall,” and Flores also claims that people in her district care more about the economy than the Jan. 6 riot committee and its surrounding circus.
Of course, the fact that Flores is completely right about her district is probably news to those who live inside a Democratic Party bubble — New York Times journalists, for example.
This trend of “far-right” Latinas running as Republicans has extended to Virginia, Florida, New Mexico, and other states, we are told. The reason why the Times is so concerned about this is obvious: Hispanic voters in Texas and other states are trending sharply toward the Republican Party. They are depriving Democrats of their dreams of demographic destiny.
The conservative Latinas that the Times is in a panic over are not any crazier or more “extreme” than any other member of Congress. They are certainly no match for the anti-Semitic socialist Democrats that get fawning media coverage and glamorous magazine profiles.
If the Times were truly concerned about extremism, it would start with those kooks. But the New York Times only fears Republicans, and it is very worried that Latina Republicans are about to win a whole bunch of elections this fall.
