The GOP in general, and Trump in particular, made substantial inroads with Hispanics in 2024, giving rise to the belief that a permanent realignment had occurred. The recent election and plenty of polling tells us otherwise. What is going on here?
The combination of the brutal immigration raids and Trump’s economic failures, of course. Some Hispanics were willing to overlook Trump’s attacks on them as long as he delivered the economy of 2019, but that hasn’t happened. The realignment was a mirage, as I suspected it was from the beginning.