New Theory Explains Latino Shift To Trump

A new theory explaining Trump's gains among Latino voters posits that the prosperity gospel may be involved. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini discuss it on The Damage Report. Please leave a comment with your thoughts below!

"President-elect Donald Trump made large gains with Latinos in the November election, and a concept known as the prosperity gospel played a significant role in this, especially among Catholics and evangelical Protestants.

The trend was illustrated by a Washington Post report, which focused on Allentown, a majority-Latino city within Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The outlet analyzed precinct data and determined that the 10 that had the highest concentration of Latino voters swung toward Trump by an average of 20 percentage points since 2020."

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[ARTSPENCER-zh]

A Latino backing Trump is like a chicken backing Col Sanders.

[ericv]

We Latinos are just as capable of self-sabotaging idiocy as anybody else. There, explained it!

[theeazylife]

Being poor, living from paycheck to paycheck sucks and is hard, but being rich at the cost of others is far from Christianity. I'm so sick of people

[kgirl]

From the high value man bs to the Cybertruck, this MAGA movement is destroying humanity.

[oldstix]

Some people believe this because they want to have someone to look down on and a club to belong to.

[tfmajka]

It has always puzzled me how the poorest states where many of the people are on some type of government assistance vote for the party that wants to cut or take away their benefits.

[EssayOns-]

The prosperity preachers use the Rolex watches to say, "be like me and this is what you can expect".

[ARTSPENCER-zh]

If Trump said that tacos are "woke", nobody in the MAGA cult let would eat tacos.

[walkingmountain]

The prosperity gospel is the Republican Party doctrine.

[shonaharris]

Recently I read Trump offered people to pray with them for a monetary profit. Reminds me of a mega church pastor.

[guttR]

the illusion of trickle down economics...

[horseyfacetheglorious]

His victory ran through the churches, that’s one reason why he won the Latino vote, I’m so disgusted with them, it’s like they forgot his rhetoric in his first term!

[nancymesek]

Imagine the tax money you’d get from these churches if laws were actually applied and followed.
You lose your tax exemption when you preach politics. Full stop

[marklittle]

Trump and Elon started out as silver spoon babies. You would have.
A better chance at getting wealth by playing the lottery than listening to them.

[glenseguin]

Decades of Latin American dictators put many of these people in the straights they are in. American Oligarchs and Prosperity Preachers will also fleece them here in America.

[stefanolacchin]

Imagine being an atheist like myself, living a good life in spite of (or maybe because of) that, and having to endure the sight of people calling themselves Christians while doing the opposite of what that should mean.

[lolbyyyeeeeee]

Prosperity gospel isn’t Christianity, and exploiting those with it is so ironically sinful that it’s hard not to laugh a little

[notaaveragejoe]

Falling for that trope is insulting at best, As a Latino male I am beyond embarrassed by my people

[ectracy]

book of job=wealth doesn't denote grace

[stop_lying_to_me]

9 of the top 10 states with the lowest household income? The Republican-led states of Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.