Dems are lucky border district voters, just voted Rep, rather than filling the Rio Grande with tea, and withholding their federal income tax payments. Most of America, has no idea what, mostly Hispanic, American border residents, have endured since Biden/Harris took office.
Our Neighbors, drained their savings and retirement accounts, to buy another home, 5 hours from their ancestral border ranch. Daily, groups of men, traipsed thru their property, leaving, literally, tons of trash. Cut fences, allowed cattle to wander. Entire ranch water systems, are broken for a single migrant drink. Fields are contaminated, when utilized as restrooms. Ranchers are going broke. Selling is unthinkable . Who would buy such a property, except the Cartels, who would then reside next to, your remaining friends and extended family?
Our neighbors endured the above, but finally had to leave, due to safety concerns. The kids could not play outside without armed guard. Driving anywhere, unarmed, was not possible, where car trouble can equal death. Large groups of men, would regularly walk thru K-12 school yards, during the middle of the school day, necessitating school lock downs. The father now endures multi 10 hour roundtrips a week. He traded time with his children, for their physical safety.
These are tax paying Americans, residing, in a quasi war zone, purposefully caused by Dems, for years. Imagine herds of unvetted, migrant men walking thru the playgrounds of Palo Alto and Georgetown, for years . How long would residents on Martha's Vineyard or Chicago's North shore, endure groups of strange men, banging on their front doors and children's bedroom windows, in the middle of the night, looking for food , water, and Lord knows, what else?
Election Day wasn't a warning. It was a Declaration of Independence. Hispanic Americans are done, playing 2nd class citizens, for a Dem Party, far more concerned with illegal border crossers, than Hispanic Border Americans. Dems are kidding themselves , if they think these voters are ever returning to the fold, if Trump stops the onslaught.
Wow. I hope they get relief very soon. This is an abominable way to treat American citizens. This is never on the news. On purpose. Thank you for sharing. Democrats always seem to be worried about offending everyone except for middle-class Americans who have to live with their policies.
The real lesson is that policies matter over personalities. These Texas communities have been wreaked by the Biden-Harris immigration policies and, as middle-class Americans, prove that inflation respects no ethnicity. If Democrats expect to turn "Texas blue," they're going to need to get outside their Acela corridor bubbles and spend time with these folks, and adjust their policies and agendas accordingly. Bernie Sanders gets it better than anyone in the party.
Out of control immigration. Far left transgender ideology. Inflation. Not a winning combination in Texas. Everyone knows that the main reason the democratic party is committed to massive immigration is that they think it will give them a demographic advantage and they believe immigrants will vote Blue. Politics over country.
For a year I've been telling everyone who would listen that Texas, Florida, and North Carolina are not in play. Period. Anyone looking at the voter registration explosion of Rs in the latter two could extrapolate that Texas was going to be redder than ever. My GOP consultant friends, however, love for Democrats to claim TX is a "swing state" so they will pump millions and millions into campaigns by Beto O'Roarke and Allred.
If Dems are smart, they will have a desperation move to secure NJ and VA, because as the voter registration trends continue, both of those will be R in 2028.
It seems like the only thing Biden and Harris offered Latino voters was unrestricted immigration over the southern border, on the assumption that this is what Latino voters wanted. Yet when the border became a big issue in the election, Biden and Harris showed they didn't care about fighting for an open border and instead scrambled to show they could reduce illegal border crossings, first by giving lip service to a doomed bill and later by taking executive actions that mirrored the ones that they rescinded on Biden's first day in office. That was a double whammy. First, their open border policies showed that they were more interested in pandering to their stereotype of Latino voters than in protecting the interests of American citizens (who, of course, include Latino voters). Second, their scramble to look tough on the border proved that they didn't really care about what they believed was important to Latino voters. They showed that their concern for the interests of Latino voters was completely fake.
Dems are lucky border district voters, just voted Rep, rather than filling the Rio Grande with tea, and withholding their federal income tax payments. Most of America, has no idea what, mostly Hispanic, American border residents, have endured since Biden/Harris took office.
Our Neighbors, drained their savings and retirement accounts, to buy another home, 5 hours from their ancestral border ranch. Daily, groups of men, traipsed thru their property, leaving, literally, tons of trash. Cut fences, allowed cattle to wander. Entire ranch water systems, are broken for a single migrant drink. Fields are contaminated, when utilized as restrooms. Ranchers are going broke. Selling is unthinkable . Who would buy such a property, except the Cartels, who would then reside next to, your remaining friends and extended family?
Our neighbors endured the above, but finally had to leave, due to safety concerns. The kids could not play outside without armed guard. Driving anywhere, unarmed, was not possible, where car trouble can equal death. Large groups of men, would regularly walk thru K-12 school yards, during the middle of the school day, necessitating school lock downs. The father now endures multi 10 hour roundtrips a week. He traded time with his children, for their physical safety.
These are tax paying Americans, residing, in a quasi war zone, purposefully caused by Dems, for years. Imagine herds of unvetted, migrant men walking thru the playgrounds of Palo Alto and Georgetown, for years . How long would residents on Martha's Vineyard or Chicago's North shore, endure groups of strange men, banging on their front doors and children's bedroom windows, in the middle of the night, looking for food , water, and Lord knows, what else?
Election Day wasn't a warning. It was a Declaration of Independence. Hispanic Americans are done, playing 2nd class citizens, for a Dem Party, far more concerned with illegal border crossers, than Hispanic Border Americans. Dems are kidding themselves , if they think these voters are ever returning to the fold, if Trump stops the onslaught.
I know how to find out how long residents of Martha's Vineyard will take it.
Wow. I hope they get relief very soon. This is an abominable way to treat American citizens. This is never on the news. On purpose. Thank you for sharing. Democrats always seem to be worried about offending everyone except for middle-class Americans who have to live with their policies.
Tragic
The real lesson is that policies matter over personalities. These Texas communities have been wreaked by the Biden-Harris immigration policies and, as middle-class Americans, prove that inflation respects no ethnicity. If Democrats expect to turn "Texas blue," they're going to need to get outside their Acela corridor bubbles and spend time with these folks, and adjust their policies and agendas accordingly. Bernie Sanders gets it better than anyone in the party.
Out of control immigration. Far left transgender ideology. Inflation. Not a winning combination in Texas. Everyone knows that the main reason the democratic party is committed to massive immigration is that they think it will give them a demographic advantage and they believe immigrants will vote Blue. Politics over country.
Another interesting, efficient column with excellent analysis. Thank you, Nate Moore!
The cities are increasingly theme parks for the young and you have already documented the right shift there.
“theme parks for the young”… brilliant
I stole it from someone.
As I shall steal it from you
and being a Seattleite I would say in addition to theme parks for the young. It’s theme parks for the tourist as well.
For a year I've been telling everyone who would listen that Texas, Florida, and North Carolina are not in play. Period. Anyone looking at the voter registration explosion of Rs in the latter two could extrapolate that Texas was going to be redder than ever. My GOP consultant friends, however, love for Democrats to claim TX is a "swing state" so they will pump millions and millions into campaigns by Beto O'Roarke and Allred.
If Dems are smart, they will have a desperation move to secure NJ and VA, because as the voter registration trends continue, both of those will be R in 2028.
I thought the Dems won every office in North Carolina except for President?
It seems like the only thing Biden and Harris offered Latino voters was unrestricted immigration over the southern border, on the assumption that this is what Latino voters wanted. Yet when the border became a big issue in the election, Biden and Harris showed they didn't care about fighting for an open border and instead scrambled to show they could reduce illegal border crossings, first by giving lip service to a doomed bill and later by taking executive actions that mirrored the ones that they rescinded on Biden's first day in office. That was a double whammy. First, their open border policies showed that they were more interested in pandering to their stereotype of Latino voters than in protecting the interests of American citizens (who, of course, include Latino voters). Second, their scramble to look tough on the border proved that they didn't really care about what they believed was important to Latino voters. They showed that their concern for the interests of Latino voters was completely fake.
The Dems burned muchos dollars chasing the Texas senate seat chimera. That money might have helped in Ohio and PA.