Mary Sanchez: Latinos for Donald Trump is the story of assimilation
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 13, 2020
3 minutes
A Jewish friend, truly perplexed, asked this about Latinos who voted for Donald Trump: “Isn’t that like a Jew voting for Hitler?”
Maybe not quite that scandalous or life-threatening.
But her basic query is widely shared. It’s based largely on Trump’s heinous anti-immigrant screeds. His callouts to cast migrants as thieves, rapists and murders and relentless bluster about building a wall at the southern border.
She’s also primarily thinking mostly of immigrants from
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