Latinos for Donald Trump
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
Some of the aspects that have been established in the electoral analysis after Donald Trump's victory are manifested in the hypothetical Latino vote for the Republicans. Some critics consider that the preferences of various Hispanic American groups living in the United States for Trumpism imply errors of consideration similar to self-sabotage or suicide. However, it is also true that there is an old Hispanic tendency for the Republicans since Nixon and Reagan that, because of its shame, in some cases, is not wanted to be noticed and much less studied. The anti-Castroites of Miami have their reasons for preferring the Republicans; but there are other causes and thoughts.
Beyond the idea of closing the door or removing the ladder, authors such as Samuel Huntington expose data and situations that allow us to notice changes in Hispanic American culture as well as a bumpy process of assimilation to the United States by Latinos. The Harvard pentagonist pointed out in his last academic works, for example, that a considerable part of the Hispanic population was in favor of education through the English language, the rejection of bilingual school models based on racial considerations, and the implementation of labor rights that prevented adequate training and competence in different sectors. That is to say, for Huntington there is a large portion of the Hispanic population, including illegal immigrants, that develops the integration processes experienced by the Irish, Italians, Japanese, Germans, and Poles, as well as some African-American communities, to contribute to the essence and substance of the North American identity.
The problem, from this perspective, is represented by the democratic multiculturalist model that not only multiplies problems and conflicts, but also impoverishes recent immigrant communities. Many Hispanic migrants leave their countries because of the ungovernability and chaos that precedes them, seeking to insert themselves in the United States for economic improvement and order. They do not want to repeat the experiences of the world they have abandoned and consciously assume the sacrifice that assimilation to the WASP culture implies.
It is important to take into consideration these statements by Samuel Huntington because Hispanic American emigration in the United States has incorrect generalizations. The author of the “Clash of Civilizations” states that multiculturalism was an opportunistic proposal by Democratic lawyers, now woke technocrats, who ended up harming and problematizing the migratory phenomenon in the United States. It would even be worth considering under this argument the persistence and extension of criminal networks such as in the case of the Mara Salvatrucha and Mexican drug trafficking.
Now that the south of the United States and a significant part of the East Coast are more similar to Mexico and Latin America, it is understandable that the Hispanic community voted for Donald Trump. In addition, Samuel Huntington points out, many emigrants consider that Republican governments positively influence Latin America more than Democratic ones. Hispanic American culture is assimilated to WASP values if it has the right incentives and rules, multiculturalism has ended up perverting the approach of liberal democracy and the victory of Donald Trump shows the failure of his various policies.
The successful assimilation of some Hispanic communities that seek to be functional in North America has been demonstrated since the government of Barack Obama; however, the multicultural model has not been the correct one in the face of a radical difference between civilizations.