There is a passage in Joel Kotkin’s post at newgeography that caught my attention:
But even if the Democrats go off into a Marxist fantasyland, Trump could still lose a large portion of working class voters, notably women turned off by his boorish behavior. Latinos, heavily represented in blue collar professions, notably in the service fields, construction, logistics and manufacturing, have done better under President Trump but his nativist tendencies — however exaggerated by a hostile media — may prevent him from harvesting these gains. Latino voters may be most hurt by progressive policies that inflate the cost of housing and energy, but may have a hard time supporting someone who seems to consider their entire community a burden to the nation.
That’s a good, succinct description of the choices we seem to have. Decades of terrible decisions have left us in the situation that we may not be able to bear the level of risk we see before us. There are no really good alternatives left.
I have lived in places with a large number of Mexicans and Latin Americans for 50 years. This guy is talking through his hat.