We should use Trump’s Latino supporters as a teaching moment to show how dividing “communities” is used indiscriminately to enrich the oligarchy further.
The publisher of Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas, wrote a recent article titled “Trump’s Latino supporters are learning the hard way: He meant every word,” where he admonished Latino gullibility. As an Afro-Latino, my video below expands on the real meaning.
Trump’s Latino supporters exposed a cultural disease.
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Summary
Trump’s Latino base is awakening to the reality that the former president’s nativist crusade always targeted them too, exposing how the pathology of white supremacy metastasizes across communities and weaponizes cultural insecurities for oligarchic gain.
- Trump launched his political rise with the slur that Mexican migrants are “bringing drugs… crime… rapists,” a message that normalized scapegoating of all brown immigrants.
- NBC-featured Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan voters in Miami now admit they “were used” after deportation raids reached their own families.
- The Marshall Project has logged more than 500 separate Trump statements falsely linking immigrants to crime, reinforcing a narrative disproven by decades of criminology.
- Pew’s 2024 validated-voter survey shows Trump nearly split the Hispanic vote, illustrating how racialized appeals can override material self-interest when unchallenged.
- Structural racism functions as a divide-and-conquer engine that depresses wages and wealth for all working people while enriching a narrow elite.
Progressives must meet this moment by confronting the lure of pseudo-whiteness, replacing it with a politics of shared prosperity and multiracial solidarity that deprives oligarchs of their favorite wedge.
The complete article is here on my Substack, where I also left a prescient comment to Markos’s diary.
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