This is the most likely 2026 election rigging method. Mass arrests at polling places and then watch the nonwhite turnout plummet

I'm light-skinned, but my wife and kids are brown. I don't want them living in a country where I can vote without fear, but they can't.

Not just swing states. Texas and Florida elections are going to be extremely unpleasant this coming cycle.

No one* is safe from this. They'll twist this and other rulings to make it so they can easily discard the rights of anyone against the MAGAt regime.

Not just latino. Anyone with slightly darker skin, including indigenous people.

This country has never been the place we were taught to believe it was. I think we started to come close to reshaping it into that image, though; this offended the parasitic ultra wealthy sociopaths, so they put Trump in power to remind us of "our proper place".

America is a slaver state and shouldn't hold together. This is out permission slip to remake society from the ground up

Is it because the "judge for live" system is corruptible?

They're stupid. Source: I have stupid extended family in the US voting for him

A big part of it is selection bias. 46% of Latino voters != 46% of Latino residents, by a long shot.

The Latinos that have the right to vote tend to be wealthier, more educated and professionalized, and more inclined towards the "Law & Order" and "Anti-Communist" political rhetoric of the Republican Party than their undocumented or unregistered peers. Add to that, during the 1980s and 90s, you had a lot of post-USSR collapse Latin American refugees fleeing countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua that no longer had Soviet support. Those that could legally move to the US typically worked for big American businesses (oil companies, most notably) with their own Reagan/Bush era conservative socio-economic attitudes. Pile in that a lot of these migrant communities have a vested interest in the Republican Party as a tool of patronage - Cubans in Florida have accrued all sorts of special legal privileges precisely because the GOP sees them as a staunch, loyal voting block. And then right-wing press in these communities fuels the anti-communist (and anti-LGBTQ, anti-Black/East Asia, anti-Liberal) politics.

So you're really whittling down the pool of Latinos who get to become legal citizens, the Latinos who get to register to vote, the Latinos who are invited to join the upper class and eventually participate in local/state/national politics, the Latinos who get to participate in national network journalism, and the Latinos who are rich enough to serve as patrons for the next political class.

Eventually, everyone looks like some combination of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Jeff Bezos.

People are idiots... in every shape, color, and size.

1. Cubans.

2. Homophobia/transphobia.

3. Pulling up the ladder.

And of course his polling with Latinos has plummeted.

They're no more immune to the propaganda, it seems.

Most people never see a single thing any politician ever says that isn't a sound byte on their favorite news source. I bet if you asked a large group of people if they have ever watched an political speech in its entirety that 98% would say no.

Discrimination Exclusion Inequality

Kind of like saying falling out of an airplane without a parachute is somewhat risky.

I appreciate your gift for understatement. 💛