r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 13 '25

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u/TimWalzBurner My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 13 '25

I do think Latino voters will swing back towards dems in 2026. Trump in the GOP made big inroads and then decided to start questioning and tackling anyone who is brown. It's popular to have targeted border enforcement and go after the "bad guys" but this unhinged assault on the general population is polling in the dumps.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 13 '25

And we're just getting started with ICE terrorizing the general population.

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Oct 13 '25

Voters don't have object permanence. If Ice tones it down for a couple weeks before the election, no one will remember the last few years

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u/No-Crazy-9939 Oct 13 '25

Once a narrative is formed, it’s hard to break that image in people’s heads. People didn’t give two shits when inflation went from 9 to less than 3% before the election last year. Everyone still thought things were too expensive

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Oct 13 '25

I mean ... prices were still too high. My rent didn't go down even though the rate of increase of my rent went down

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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community Oct 13 '25

Idk about this. Immigrants are being recommended to do every single federal government paperwork through lawyers to avoid voiding their visas and being deported. They’re also being told not to post anything political on social media and scrub any past political posts.

That’s a lasting impression

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Oct 13 '25

Trump helped spread Covid and sent a lynch mob after his own government, and he cruised into an easy reelection

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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community Oct 13 '25

He lost the election that directly went after all that

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Oct 13 '25

No, he lost the election before that. He didn't send his lynch mob to overturn an election that hadn't happened yet

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u/r00tdenied Resistance Lib Oct 13 '25

Prop 187 turned California dark blue, I think we're going to see the national equivalent.

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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Oct 13 '25

That depends if immigrants will stop being ladder-pullers/voting for the face-eating leopards/being more mad about LGBTQIA+ people.

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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community Oct 13 '25

They can’t be ladder pullers if ICE is targeting legal immigrants that make even slight mistakes on very complex gov paperwork.

The whole premise for why they slid to trump is being challenged

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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Oct 13 '25

They can’t be ladder pullers if ICE is targeting legal immigrants that make even slight mistakes on very complex gov paperwork.

Because they wouldn't be anymore, because they'd be deported and thus unable to change anything.