Opinion: Hispanics embrace the Republican Party in the face of Democrats’ leftward drift
By Raúl Tortolero*
(Opinion) Too many people in the United States are upset about the economic disaster that the country is going through, with an inflation rate of about 8.2%, expensive gasoline and diesel (especially in the woke cradle California), and a 3.7% unemployment rate in October -according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)-.
Undoubtedly, the down economy is one of the significant campaign issues in the mid-term elections to be held this Tuesday, Nov. 8, in which the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 in the Senate, state legislatures, and 36 governorships are up for renewal.
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But in addition to the family pocketbook, other issues have marked the public debate.
Such as abortion -especially after the conservative success in overturning the Roe vs. Wade case-, the increase in crime, the immigration crisis, the dictatorial green agenda, and the survival of liberal democracy in the face of an incipient woke tyranny led by the radical currents of the Democratic Party.
One critical point does not go unnoticed: if the Republican Party wins this election, Donald Trump will have the road very well carpeted for his return to the presidency in 2024.
Knowing this, meanwhile, Joe Biden has not stopped injecting venom against the former president, the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, and the Republicans, identifying them almost indistinctly as a mob that took “by assault” the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as extremists, and that today – he says – they put even “democracy” at risk.
This is what he said at the Columbus Club in Washington DC, this Nov. 2:
“This is not an ordinary year. In a typical year, we would not normally face the question of whether, by voting, we are preserving or jeopardizing democracy. But this year, we are. So I ask you to think carefully about our moment.”
But those who are putting democracy, freedom of speech, and religion at risk are, of course, the Democrats, each day more radicalized by imposing their progressive single-mindedness.
And that is not to mention that during Biden’s administration, the FBI acted like a police agency of a banana republic by being used as an instrument of political revenge after raiding Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Aug. 8.
In search of alleged classified documents. Never before has such a thing happened against a former president in his family home.
But that’s not all on the part of the good Hunter’s dad (a boy who, by the way, had an assistant who was a spy for Chinese intelligence).
In Illinois, this Nov. 5, Biden called demonstrators carrying signs against socialism “idiots”.
The US president believes he is not a socialist, but not a few voices see him and his party as such, and in an increasingly complex way.
I had a public conversation a few months ago about the Cultural Counterrevolution with the former ambassador of that country in Mexico (in times of Trump’s presidency), Christopher Landau.
He said clearly that the Democrats are burdening the left more daily.
And he is right. Because what is it to vote for the Democratic Party today?
We are talking about the party that has in its ranks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, who have openly declared themselves as socialists, and progressives and are part of postmodern Marxism.
The Democratic Party has a more positive view of socialism than capitalism.
Many factors, notably the pro-globalist press and BigTech, have influenced the fact that, according to one survey, among Americans aged 18-29, 51% had a favorable view of socialism, compared to 45%, who had a positive idea of capitalism.
Americano Media -a conservative U.S. Spanish-language media outlet- offered a synthesis in Dania Alexandrino’s space, “Hablando de Frente”, on what it means today to vote for the Democratic Party in general.
- An economy increasingly controlled by the State,
- more taxes;
- fewer liberties;
- the construction of an all-powerful State, with individuals with less voice;
- the boom of the progressive-globalist mainstream media;
- the rise of Big Tech with anti-conservative values agenda -read Christian-;
- cancellation culture;
- use of police institutions to intimidate opponents (assault on Mar a Lago with the FBI);
- agenda of postmodern Marxism;
- progressive supremacism (feminist, LGBT, black, eco-animalist supremacism);
- woke revolution, push for single thinking;
- anti-capitalism;
- abortion;
- destruction of the family;
- promotion of homosexual lifestyle;
- gender ideology;
- sexual and woke indoctrination from early school years;
- Critical Race Theory;
- defunding the police;
- ideological closeness with Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
And all this massive package of ultra-left, progressive ideology and public policies is, in many ways, together with the crisis in the family economy, the reason why more than a few of the 60 million Hispanics living in the country of the stars and stripes, are getting scared of what the Democratic Party has become.
They were generating the #hispanexit or #latinexit: stop voting for this institution to vote for the Republican Party, much more in line with the values of Hispanic Americans, who are Christians and people of family and work.
In the United States, 75.5% of this population is Catholic Christian.
It is no longer the party of the donkey symbolism preferred by Hispanics who miraculously seek to fix their immigration status because it is known that it does not do so.
Now it is a leftist institution, which goes against the faith, the natural family, and life from conception, promotes sexual indoctrination from the earliest childhood, and normalizes the harmonization of pubescent boys, dangerously heading towards transsexuality.
Even in a poll by such a progressive left-wing, globalist, pro-Democrat media outlet as the New York Times, in conjunction with Siena College, the results showed that 49% of voters this Nov. 8 lean in favor of the Republican Party, and 4 points down, 45% prefer the “Dems”.
So the advantage could lead the GOP (Grand Old Party, i.e., the Republican Party), especially MAGA, to recapture the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
That would be their ideal scenario.
For its part, CNN – the culmination channel of anti-Trumpism, progressive and globalist supremacism – found in its national poll published on Nov. 2 several quite negative points that pour water on the Democratic party:
- Only 17% strongly approve of Biden’s performance, while 47% strongly disapprove of him;
- 61% of the potential voters assure that this president has not paid enough attention to the real problems of the American people.
A 51% -following CNN’s results- think that the central issue of the midterm is the economy (we have already seen what a deplorable state it is in). A devastating 72% of the likely voters assure that things are going wrong or quite bad in the United States.
Abortion, and especially the Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, deserves a separate mention, as it has become the number one issue in this strange election.
A poll conducted by Axios in the second half of September shows how many abortionists were enraged by the overturning of this crime against unborn babies and, motivated by the goal of continuing to abort millions of babies, are going out to vote.
Who thinks this way?
Above all, 69% of those support the Democratic Party, and 62% of blacks. In this poll, Hispanics and Republicans are at the other extreme.
This confirms the pro-GOP trend and that leftists do not have much more on their minds and plans than abortion, which they put above labor and everything else.
As for governorships, it should be remembered that those 36 entities are at stake: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Most polls show a lead of about 23 Republican candidates in these governorships.
There is something else that plays in favor of the Republican Party in these elections: midterms, in virtually all cases historically, are lost by the party in power.
Barack Obama lost 63 House seats in 2010, going from 256 to 193 for the party of the donkey. Then the African-American president in 2014 lost 13 House seats, going from 201 to 188.
A single exception has been precisely Trump, who in 2020 did not lose anything but gained two more Senate seats, going from 51 to 53 seats.
As it is, Biden and his woke friends look desperate. Obama is also campaigning for his party.
And as icing on the cake, a globalist, progressive supremacist, and even Malthusian character could not be missing as the primary donor in this race, with 120 million dollars: none other than George Soros, the biggest abortionist promoter of illegal migration in the world.
But even so, the Democrats do not seem to have salvation. Everything points to the fact that the so-called “Red Tsunami” (as Elise Stefanik, representative of the House, NY, called it) due to the color of the Republicans, will reshape the face of the United States, making it more conservative and respectful of life, the family and the economy.
That on a much more significant, more impactful, more profound, and more lasting height than what the Supreme Court achieved with the repeal of abortion in recent times.
* Writer, lecturer. Political consultant. PhD in Human Rights. Master in Philosophy, Culture and Religion. Catholic, pro-life and pro-family activist. President of “Nueva Derecha Hispanoamericana”. Former Secretary of Communications of the PAN National Executive Committee. National Journalism Award 2007, granted by the UN in Mexico. Geopolitical Analyst. His most recent book: “La Contrarrevolución Cultural frente al marxismo posmoderno”.
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