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Originally Posted by eschaton
I honestly believe that at least some of Trump's Latino appeal is pretty much that his public presentation was a lot more like that of a right-wing Latin American politician than what the Republican Party would traditionally have.
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Possibly. And I suspect the Dems do a horrible job of reaching Latino voters. The GOP likely has very well-targeted messaging to the differing communities.
For example, the Socialist=Dems label seems to work very well in South Florida, but in Texas, this would fail among Mexican Americans. Mexico's Obrador is a very popular Socialist leader with strong support among Mexican Americans, and warm rapport with Trump (and Cuba/Venezuela). His base, rhetoric and policy prescriptives are essentially the same as in Cuba/Venezuela, yet Mexican Americans are drifting away from the U.S. party popularly identified with Socialism.
It may simply be that most Cuban-Americans have upper class roots, and like right-wing populism, and most Mexican-Americans have lower class roots and like left-wing populism, and so for both communities, Trump is the populist candidate.