The irony of this presumed solidarity of immigrant peoples is that liberals tend to assume, quite frankly racistly, that people in sharing the same national origin necessarily have the same basic interests. But this simply isn't any more true about the internal politics of any other country than it is the United States. And extending that to migrants, people with a low enough attachment to their country of origin they're willing to move to another country and have their kids subscribe to a different nationality entirely, is just as silly.
To the extent the Democrats could ever count on these votes, it was mainly because the Democrats supported policy that benefited poor people, and immigrant people tend to be poor. Now they're just coasting on branding alone. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Trump is getting more votes when he's at least pretending to care about issues that interest them instead of expecting people to be impressed that he listens to Ricky Martin and uses the word Latinx.
The irony of this presumed solidarity of immigrant peoples is that liberals tend to assume, quite frankly racistly, that people in sharing the same national origin necessarily have the same basic interests. But this simply isn't any more true about the internal politics of any other country than it is the United States. And extending that to migrants, people with a low enough attachment to their country of origin they're willing to move to another country and have their kids subscribe to a different nationality entirely, is just as silly.
To the extent the Democrats could ever count on these votes, it was mainly because the Democrats supported policy that benefited poor people, and immigrant people tend to be poor. Now they're just coasting on branding alone. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Trump is getting more votes when he's at least pretending to care about issues that interest them instead of expecting people to be impressed that he listens to Ricky Martin and uses the word Latinx.
Couldn't have put it better myself, William! Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.