# Why did 45% of Hispanic voters vote for Trump? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 9, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986 "2024-11-09T15:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/141 "2024-11-27T16:35:43Z")
It bears repeating: Dear Trump Supporters, Due respect: like millions of others, you’re being manipulated. The GOP, Trump, RW media, and the Trump acolytes just keep lying to people over and over and over and over. They assume you don’t know enough to recognize their misdirection, and that you either don’t have the skills or simply won’t bother to fact check that misdirection when it’s fed to you. And it comes at you like a fire hose (see: Gish Gallop, Brandolini’s Law). There is just an insane amount of misdirection – too much TO fact check if you don’t have the education, training, experience, and knowledge to know fertilizer when you see it. IOW, I truly have no idea where you’re getting your news, but I’d find another source – one that won’t treat you with such profound disdain, contempt, and cynicism – if I were you. You should resent being used … by whatever sources you’re choosing. You should resent it deeply. I sure would. **TL;DR** : It really isn’t their friends, their neighbors, their colleagues, or the Democrats who are looking down on Trump supporters, laughing at them behind their backs, and calling them stupid. It’s the places where they get their news and the people to whom they keep writing checks. ---
**Author:** ![BorealisCooper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@BorealisCooper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorealisCooper)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/142 "2024-11-27T17:12:07Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I know exactly why: because they are some mix of evil, ignorant or stupid. Like _every single other_ Trump voter. They either knowingly voted for a vile man who would persecute them which makes them both evil and stupid, or they did it _without_ knowing which makes them either stupid or ignorant. It is not possible for someone to have voted for Trump without that being a condemnation of themselves, the only question is what they deserve to be condemned for. Claiming that they were knowingly evil and self destructive isn’t the defense of them you apparently think it is. > > But they _didn’t_ do it because they had the psychic powers to see what a poster would say on a message board weeks after they _demonstrated_ that they are a mix evil, ignorant and stupid. You still don’t get it. You said the Repubbas lumped all those people together and then you did the same thing, and called them all stupid to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/143 "2024-11-27T17:17:52Z")
**Der Trihs,** you’ve made maybe 200 posts since election night all with the same theme - things are hopelessly evil, things cannot be fixed, the voters on the wrong side cannot be persuaded, they cannot be educated, nothing can be done. Doom-doom-doom. I’m struggling to understand what you’re proposing as actual change of course or an actual different direction to go in. Every time someone proposes some new strategy, you say “nope, it’s hopeless and useless.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/144 "2024-11-27T17:53:54Z")
> [@BorealisCooper](#): > > You still don’t get it. You said the Repubbas lumped all those people together and then you did the same thing, and called them all stupid to boot. Evil, ignorant or stupid; if they weren’t, they wouldn’t have voted Trump. “Moral, well informed, smart, rational people who voted for Trump” is a category with _zero_ people in it. And my point is that the Republicans _have_ in fact lumped all those people together as targets, so they don’t get a choice in the matter. They _are_ all going to be treated as the enemy by Republicans, and their desire to pretend otherwise won’t change that at all. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/145 "2024-11-27T18:03:17Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > And it comes at you like a fire hose They’re not gonna get it until it’s a literal firehose. [![](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/515391480/photo/firemen-bear-in-on-a-group-of-african-americans-who-sought-shelter-in-a-doorway-as-hoses-and.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=h1ci2NN0Lizz_og4x7ckwotg3S5xfSyLaKaJLkT9MZw=) ](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/515391480/photo/firemen-bear-in-on-a-group-of-african-americans-who-sought-shelter-in-a-doorway-as-hoses-and.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=h1ci2NN0Lizz_og4x7ckwotg3S5xfSyLaKaJLkT9MZw=) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/146 "2024-11-27T19:45:42Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I know exactly why: because they are some mix of evil, ignorant or stupid. Like _every single other_ Trump voter. They either knowingly voted for a vile man who would persecute them which makes them both evil and stupid, or they did it _without_ knowing which makes them either stupid or ignorant I have to be fair here- apparently the big issue was inflation. You do not have to be ignorant or stupid to not understand inflation. Inflation is not simple or easy. Mind you, I will grant that the hard core MAGA voter is likely one or more. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/147 "2024-11-27T19:54:22Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I have to be fair here- apparently the big issue was inflation. Which first, puts them in the “evil” category for putting their wallet over the lives and welfare of hundreds of millions of people, _and_ makes them stupid or ignorant for actually thinking that Trump and the Republicans would do anything but make the economy worse. And sets themselves up for persecution on top of that. “I wanted cheaper eggs, so I voted in favor of the fascists” is a condemnation, not a defense. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986/148 "2024-11-27T19:59:16Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “I wanted cheaper eggs, so I voted in favor of the fascists” is a condemnation, not a defense. It’s also just another _stellar_ example of the “flood the zone with shit” strategy of the Republicans. Eggs? Mostly bird flu: > **[Avian Influenza Hits Turkeys and Eggs Hardest](https://www.fb.org/market-intel/avian-influenza-hits-turkeys-and-eggs-hardest)** > > Since 2022, over 100 million birds throughout the poultry industry have been affected by HPAI and egg layers and turkeys have been impacted the most. And the farmers are asking for … [wait for it] … FDA approval of vaccines: [**US farmers call for vaccine option to fight bird flu as wildfowl migration begins**](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-farmers-call-vaccine-option-fight-bird-flu-wildfowl-migration-begins-2024-09-27/) If it wasn’t for double-standards, today’s Republicans would have no standards at all. If it wasn’t for misinformation, today’s Republicans would have no information at all. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-45-of-hispanic-voters-vote-for-trump/1009986.md?page=7)