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As a sort of companion piece to our earlier post, I was interested in this New York Timesstory about how Hispanic conservatives in Texas are trying to solidify the undeniable gains that Republicans made with Hispanic voters in the 2020 election. These gains were made in the face of a Republican administration* that made the country’s Hispanic communities its primary scapegoats. This is a legitimate concern for Democrats going forward with their plans to purple Texas up. That conservative surge — and the liberal decline — has buoyed the Republican Party’s hopes about its ability to dr...

So the story ably tracks a genuine political phenomenon, and certainly one that’s worth watching going forward. But this is 2021, and these are Republicans, and sooner or later, there’s a serious bustle in the hedgerow. Elisa Rivera, 40, said she had voted for Mrs. Clinton in 2016, but did not understand the fierce reaction against Mr. Trump. “I was following along the family tradition, my dad is a hard-core Democrat, my father was really for unions, and I thought the Democrats defended the union,” Ms. Rivera said, before adding: “But then I started to research myself and found out...

The useful warnings of Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ Written by Portia Ladrido enablePagination: false endIndex: Despite its faults, the first of the two-volume memoir by the former U.S. president provides an important insight on the brewing disillusion and disempowerment of the working class around the world. In 2000, Barack Obama was invited by his friend to join the Democractic National Convention in Los Angeles. This was his friend’s way of encouraging him to “get back on the horse” after losing a Congressional race that his wife Michelle advised against participating in...