Democrats haven’t exactly earned a reputation for thoughtful introspection within the last four years. But watching Joe Biden lose Florida in large part thanks to Latino voters who threw in with President Trump should tell you something about their party.
Democrats have become repulsive, and not just in Florida. Trump performed marginally better among Latinos in 2020 than he did in 2016 nationwide, and that’s after a nonstop drumbeat of accusations that Trump is a racist xenophobe, with a huge assist from the national media. Yet he earned more Latino votes in Florida in 2020 than in 2016, robbing Biden of the state’s highly coveted 29 electoral votes.
New York Times reporter Alex Burns guessed early Wednesday morning on the Daily podcast that Trump was able to drive up his Latino support “by characterizing Democrats as these left-wing radicals who are in league with socialists.”
CNN’s Ana Navarro similarly steamed on air about the Republicans’ great trick in simply rolling the tape of Democrats, one after another, promising to raise taxes on middle-income earners, eliminate industrial jobs, and flood the country with yet more low-skilled immigrants.
What’s not to love?!
To be sure, it’s not entirely to the Trump campaign’s credit that so many Floridian Latinos bolted from Democrats in a panic this election. Democrats probably did most of the hard work on their own by demanding to return to lockdown whenever possible and excusing, if not outright encouraging, the looting and violence throughout the summer months.
Do Democrats think that might have had anything to do with Biden’s miserable performance in Florida? I do.
