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Texas Hispanics swung hard to Trump. A new poll shows they’re furious at his deportations
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The Democrats to do the same. This was the year Democrats came up with yet another brilliant strategy to win over "moderate" Republicans by pivoting hard right on immigration, abandoning any talk of "building the wall is racist" in favor of "Trump doesn't actually want to build the wall, we're the ones who will actually do it." Naturally, it didn't do shit to win over anti-immigrant people who still saw them as weak on immigration compared to the Republicans, but it was quite effective at alienating immigrants and pro-immigration people.
Turns out, there's a decent number of Hispanics with conservative inclinations who are willing to overlook them and vote Democrat, so long as they believe the Republicans are racist against them. Since the Democrats decided that criticizing anti-immigrant policies as racist was too alienating to racists, those conservative Hispanics lost the one reason they were willing to vote Democrat and voted based on culture war bullshit instead.
Why whould anybody who wants the original vote for a lesser copy?
I never really understood the political "strategy" of aping the opposition by offering an milder version of their policies.
It's an incredibly stupid strategy, but there's a couple factors that cause Dem leadership to keep trying it over and over.
First, and primarily, turning right tends to square better with what their corporate donors want.
They're also stuck in the past, they think we're still in the early 2000s where there was a broad, bipartisan consensus on interventionist foreign policy and taking away privacy rights and such. They think Trump is a bizarre, random fluke, and that there are countless moderate Republicans who still believe in that consensus. In reality, some didn't ever believe in it, some just followed whatever they were told to believe, but a lot became disillusioned when that consensus failed miserably, with decades-long wars accomplishing nothing.
Part of the problem is that they stay in their bubbles, and that "moderate Republican" perspective is disproportionately represented in elite, Beltway circles. People like Dick Cheney are almost universally reviled outside of those circles, but the Dems aren't even aware of it.
Then there's this "conventional wisdom" that puts everyone's political views on a one dimensional spectrum and concludes that the most moderate candidate will always win. Completely ignoring mobilization, enthusiasm, Trump's multiple wins which fly in the face of the theory, the ability to change people's political views and identities, the fact that politics is way more complex than one dimension (for example, the effect I mentioned before with Hispanic Trump voters).
That's basically Clinton's "Third Way" which Democrats view as the greatest political revelation to ever occur, the move that saved the party! They treat the 1992 election like it was a miraculous win against an unbeatable opponent, not Americans realizing Reagan was a fraud thanks to two depressions in 5 years. It has guided the party ever since, which is why Obama's big healthcare plan was Heritage Foundation slop and Biden's big win was giving the most valuable companies in the world a shitload of taxpayer money.
In general, humans don't behave rationally. It's time to stop pretending we do.