This article is an instructive example of the fantasyland I see some Democrats living in. It's written by a political foe of Lauren Boebert and interviews people who voted against her, in a city she lost, averring that Pueblo is in mid-backlash against herhttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/10/lauren-boebert-pueblo-colorado-487118 …
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(Disclosure: I fundraised for Boebert's opponent). The real story of Pueblo is much more interesting—a deindustrialized Rust Belt city that somehow wound up at the foot of the Rockies, and where a large Latino population consistently votes with low turnout
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There are cities and communities like this throughout red state America. Reading, PA is another one that comes to mind. Democrats have assumed that the Latino vote was just theirs for the taking, since Trump was so obviously anti-immigrant. But these places remain unmobilized
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Not just unmobilized, right? Like one of the big 2020 stories was that mobilized Latino voters in Texas turned out surprisingly strong for the GOP?
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Yeah, exactly. That's why I have such high hopes for the LOL potential of Puerto Rican statehood delivering a Republican supermajority
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A state candidate I supported had a friend who was die-hard for Trump even though his wife got deported back to Mexico. The husband had citizenship, his wife didn't, and they were trying for a spousal visa to let her return. But he thought Trump would be better on the economy!
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There is no situation or political stance weird enough that you won't find voters in it
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Don’t even know that it’s that weird. Family has lived in Latino communities, and a lot of them are just super conservative. Stable political identities not subject to change just because one R is an idiot. Also, a beat Gustavo Arellano has been on for years.
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Part of this is that I don’t think we’ve been well served by the discourse of D vs. R as a totalizing struggle between right and wrong. Flattening people out makes us bad at listening to them, which is a problem if you need their vote.
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The flattening and totalizing seems to be an across the board problem, and it is the greatest crisis humankind has ever faced.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Would I sound crazy if I blamed Twitter for a lot of this?
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I'd argue it was confusing cause for effect. The flattening is kind of universal while Twitter is really a niche thing. That said, there's definitely some social media angle that is a big contributor.
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