The Patriot Post® · In Brief: Dems' Open Border Alienated Hispanics
It doesn’t seem like that many years ago when Democrats happily touted the supposed demographic destiny of a permanent majority. A funny thing happened on the way to that utopia, though. Dave Seminara explains one facet: How Democrats lost Hispanic votes by destroying the border.
Remember the outrage when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard? Apparently Florida Hispanics, many of whom arrived as asylum seekers themselves, aren’t feeling it.
DeSantis won handily yesterday, including Hispanic-heavy Miami-Dade.
Once upon a time, news outlets reveled in reporting that was surprising and counterintuitive. Now the point of our partisan media is to reinforce what we already think, even if it’s wrong. This is how incorrect assumptions like the idea that Hispanics prefer the Democrats’ open border policies become entrenched.
It’s also a big reason why trust in our media is at or near all-time lows.
Seminara offers an illustration and a prediction:
Imagine if you were the CEO of H&R Block, and your company’s internal research showed that blacks and Latinos didn’t trust your company to do their tax returns. You’d surely form a team to figure out why and then do everything in your power to regain the trust of customers in those demographics. No such thing is happening with the mainstream media. Clearly, the liberal blue-check types aren’t going to turn on themselves or suddenly become non-partisan. They’re certain that they’re telling the truth, which Republicans and most independents are just too dumb to grasp. And the suits aren’t overruling the newsroom because they’ve found a way to make hyper-partisan media profitable (or at least some have). All of which means I’m not holding my breath for these dynamics to change anytime soon.
He adds:
This lefty media bias is leading Democrats into disastrous policy decisions, starting with their lax approach to immigration enforcement. Democratic policymakers are poorly informed because they rely too heavily on media elites who are clueless enough to think that Hispanics support open borders.
Ruy Teixeira, a Democrat who is the co-editor of the worth-reading Substack newsletter Liberal Patriot, nailed it recently when he detailed how woke Democrats are losing the Hispanic vote because they fail to recognize that Hispanics are “normie voters.” Normie voters want secure borders and aren’t losing sleep over Republican governors sending migrants into sanctuary cities and liberal enclaves that profess to want more diversity. But the Democrats are too far estranged from the interests and sensibilities of normie voters to understand this.
The reason Democrat lost yesterday has a lot to do with the economy, but as Seminar concludes, “that will only be part of the story.” Democrats will “keep losing until their policies become more Main Street than MSNBC and Martha’s Vineyard.”