There were a lot of surprises for Democrats on Election Night, but perhaps none stung so deeply as the drastic erosion of support from minority voters and particularly Latino men. Not so long ago, Latinos were seen as one of the bedrock demographics in the Democratic coalition, their loyalty seemingly guaranteed by Donald Trump’s attempts to alienate them by describing them as rapists and foreigners. But as New York’s Zak Cheney-Rice writes in this distressing postmortem, Latino men broke hard for Trump this cycle, raising questions about the Democratic message to Latinos — and whether the party has ever seen this group of voters properly at all.
—Ryu Spaeth, features editor, New York |
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