If there is one thing guaranteed to follow a disappointing election, it’s the slew of political bad takes attempting to explain it.
But let’s focus on the one getting a lot of play.
“Latino men just didn’t want a woman president,” read a headline from The Hill . “Trump’s return to power fueled by Hispanic, working-class voter support,” declared Reuters . CBS News ran with, “ Latino men showed out in huge numbers for President-elect Donald Trump.”
Amazing. And here I thought mainstream media only cared about us during Hispanic Heritage Month. Latino men really went from being blamed for drugs, crime and stealing jobs by the right wing, to being blamed for losing the election by centrist Democrats.
But if Latino men didn’t want a woman president, well, neither did white women, and apparently not white men (53 percent of white women and 60 percent of white men, respectively, voted for Trump). But I digress.
This sobering post-election narrative — that Latino men (55 percent according to most exit polls) sided with a bigoted, sexist, misogynist, racist, xenophobic, lying abuser — is one that I, and many others,— have been thinking a lot about. Of course, we’re all entitled […]
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