Crystal Minton, a secretary at the prison who is also a single mother caring for disabled parents, had a somewhat different reaction — one that reveals an essential truth about the core Trump’s political appeal.
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.
Think about that line for a second. Roll it over in your head. In essence, Minton is declaring that one aim of the Trump administration is to hurt people — the right people. Making America great again, in her mind, involves inflicting pain. This is not an accident. Trump’s political victory and continuing appeal depend on a brand of politics that marginalizes and targets groups disliked by his supporters. Trump supporters don’t so much love the Republican party as they hate Democrats, a phenomenon political scientists call “negative partisanship.” They like Trump not because he sells them on the GOP, but because they believe he’ll stick it to the Democrats harder than anyone else.
I dont think these Latinos voters are going to be down with anything that look like socialist or any other leftist policy's .
I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm breh, but many people in red states seem to fall into the mindset of "I'm okay with voting for someone in power who will harm others, as long as I’m not affected." They tend to support policies that benefit themselves but they will vote for politicians who will hurt certain groups of people, as long as they believe those politicians will only target the "right" kind of people
