New polling conducted by Somos Votantes and the Global Strategy Group between August 26 and September 4 shows that Trump’s net approval rating among Latino voters has dropped from -11 points in February to -23 points in September.

His favorability rating has seen a similar drop, from -12 points in February to -20 points in September.

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    And this is why Trump is going to create an emergency or declare war before the 2026 elections.

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      I think a lot of it comes down to news and education. Every bit of media they consume assured them that Trump was a no-nonsense tough guy who would tackle head on some of the issues that were of genuine concern to them. There are billions of dollars that go into manipulating the landscape in all kinds of ways to make sure that is all they were presented with. And so, that’s the basis they decided on. What else could they do?

      Sure, you and me exist in a media landscape where that’s a laughable joke, but I don’t think you can necessarily blame them for not having lucked their way into the same places that we exist on. The white people, who were waving around signs saying “Mass Deportations Now” and then got all upset when it turned around on them, I think you can blame, but I think a lot of people of a lot of different ethnicities and backgrounds just got fooled by all the propaganda that is so polished and professional at this point.

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        This was entirely about religious conservative Latinos not liking LGBT+ people, especially Trans people. This was all about “we support the Catholic religion, get these trans people out of the sports and bathrooms.”

        Their lack of compassion and hypocrisy among religious Latinos came back to bite their own community in the ass like an ouroboros eating its own tail. Yes these people are to blame for voting for Trump and the ensuing policies. The policies were not secret, ignorance is not an excuse for poor voting choices.

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          That is the thing that bothers me. EVERYONE that could have voted in 2024 was old enough to remember the first Trump term.

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        Oh fuck that, quit letting idiots off the hook for being idiots. There was, and still is, an absurd amount of information readily available about how shitty Trump is. If the people you’re talking about cared at all they could have found it easily, but they didn’t. That’s not anyone else’s fault but theirs.

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            Don’t be a fucking contrarian for idiots. They spend a DECADE shouting about how the liberals are trying to slander poor Donald, oh the awful things they say about him! How could they?

            They chose not to accept the truth. That’s on them at this point.

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            Wikipedia is right there in a number of languages. Not asking people to do academic research, read above a 6th grade level, or leave their house.

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              Yeah if reading something is too high of a bar for the average person to clear then I will happily admit that my expectations of humanity are too high.

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        But this was the first Trump presidency. They had gone through it before. They knew what was going to happen.

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      I realized how stupid people were when I was younger (late teens). I always figured that I had to out think a handful of people to accomplish whatever it was I wanted to do.

      Mind you that there are a lot of people smarter than me (IQ) or that have more “common sense” but the combination of the two is rare.

      Anyone with eyes should be able yo see how shit Trump is but they don’t and it hurts my brain.

      If you have any sense at all please run for local office and please push democratic socialist views.

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        There really isn’t a better self confidence boost that interacting with trump supporters. It’s almost zero effort and instantly clear the difference is measurable in magnitudes.

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    Does this demographic also have to be supervised at meal times lest they try to eat the cutlery?

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    It never should have been high, if they had only paid attention. Goes for anyone really, but Latino support was an oddity. This guy was going to help you? Really?