J-Rube is trying to give advice to the GOP on how to fix their “Hispanic problem.” She could start by counseling them to say ‘Latinos’ instead of ‘Hispanics.’ Most of her advice is pretty good, but she doesn’t figure out the main thing that the Republicans need to do. They need to make the decision that they want two Latino votes for every hateful bigot in their party. They need to pick a high-profile fight with their racist element.They need to make it clear that they don’t want to be a party reliant on white supremacists and stupid people.
When they do that, they’ll not only win over more Latinos, they’ll win over more of everybody.
Even if they weren’t racists, Latinos have trended Democratic for a long time; it’s going beyond the GOP’s outright hostility and racist attitudes. At some point we need to just admit that as a demographic, perhaps they’re more liberal. Have they ever voted for the Republican more than say around 40%? Time to change the policies, not just rhetoric and/or immigration reform.
So, you are saying that the Republicans need to throw the Republicans out of the Republican party.
Seems sort of counterproductive.
the Democrats did it.
Yep, and it took decades—starting no later than 1948 (Dixiecrat walkout of the DNC after adoption of the civil rights plank that made Hubert Humphrey a national figure) and ending no earlier than 1968 (Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Wallace’s 3rd party bid combine to shatter the Johnson landslide of four years earlier).
What makes it arguably more difficult for Republicans today than Democrats 50 years ago (and it was brutally difficult then) is that there’s not another political party that wants to compete for the votes of white bigots. Democrats seem perfectly content (for the most part) with their “new emerging majority”, and with the social/demographic trends that keep it growing.
Those bigots are a significant political bloc and they’re going to want/need/find a political home. Attracting Latino (and Asian, and re-attracting Muslim and African-American) votes while gradually marginalizing the bigoted part of their base is going to be, I expect, a long and wrenching political transformation for the Republican Party.
Yep – the Dixicrat racists left the Democratic Party and became Republicans because they fit in. So, since there is no “Racist Party”, where would they go?
Also too, they are right at home where they are. Why would they leave?
It’s not that they “have” racists in their party, it’s that their party is intrinsically racist. The only way to mask their true nature – a party of, by, and for the haves and the have mores – is to entice their potential voters to believe that they too are better than “those others” (however “others” are defined at the moment) and that Republican policies will keep those others in their proper place, making America safe for good people like the potential Republican voter.
I’ve long thought the Republican party’s attempts to blend both wings of classic WWII fascism – the Mussolini strain where corporations rule the state and the Nazi strain of uniting via racism has come apart under the hispanic surge. The racists want them to “self deport”. The corporatists want undocumented, non voting labor setting lower wages in general.
Very interesting. uniting via racism is national, corporatists are global, hence the corporatist branch will dominate eventually; i.e., the racism wing could be supplanted by the corporatist side the more global the party’s support becomes
not gonna happen as long as the house remains in gop control.
I personally prefer to be called Hispanic, but the point is whether I’m called Hispanic, Latino or Mexican or wetback or whatever what matters is that Republicans want to make life harder for me (and the country) over and over and over again so I’m not going to support them.