CNN’s Dana Bash, channeling Univision’s Jorge Ramos, ended her interview of U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) by questioning how Hispanics in that state might vote for Donald Trump. The whole thing, quite frankly, reeked of elite bigotry.
If you close your eyes, you can sense the smug sense of leftwing entitlement emanating from your television set or mobile device as Bash rants:
CNN STATE OF THE UNION
10/6/24
9:27 AM
DANA BASH: Senator, before I let you go, you of course, are from Arizona. That is a neck and neck state as well. I want to ask you about a key constituency there. A Marist poll showed last month that Trump and Harris are effectively tied among Latino voters in Arizona. Four years ago, Joe Biden won Latinos by 24 percentage points. Why is she underforming(sic)- underperforming so dramatically in that voting group?
MARK KELLY: Well, I did, you know, tight races in 2020 and 2022. You know, polls in Arizona. They can bounce around a little bit. I will say this: just like the Muslim community in- in Michigan, the Latino community in the state of Arizona is going to benefit significantly from a Kamala Harris presidency. Harris and Walz are committed to their values. These are often middle-class and working class folks. You know, they're not monolithic on issues. But Kamala Harris cares about them and cares about their families. When you consider the way Donald Trump talks about immigrants and talks about people of color, my hope is that over the next 30 days that that starts to resonate with folks more in the state of Arizona, and she can win the state. I'm confident that she's going to win Arizona. She's going to be elected the next President of the United States. Obviously, in the next 30 days, we have some work to do.
BASH: Yeah, I'll say. And certainly, at those voters who were saying that they are interested in voting for Donald Trump, particularly Latino voters. They've heard all the things that Donald Trump has said for the past eight years, and it's still really remarkable the way that it is tied among those key voters in your state.
At a bare minimum, Bash is guilty of crass insensitivity towards a segment of the electorate that she clearly knows nothing about. At worst, Bash is simply displaying the left’s gross sense of entitlement, not just to the Latino vote but to the community itself. Bash very carefully tries to condemn an electorate that, just like every other demographic across the nation, has been hammered by high inflation, high food prices, high cost of shelter, high cost of insurance. And just like every other demographic across the nation, Latinos are disgusted at what is going on at the southern border, a significant portion of which runs through Arizona.
But Bash, like a significant majority of the left, sees Latinos as being obligated to vote solely on matters of racial rhetoric, and solely in reaction to “things that Donald Trump” has said. This thinking is most recently embodied by MSNBC contributor Paola Ramos, who in furtherance of her book tour went on The Daily Show and said:
“Anyways, long short, I think what Trumpism does really well as many think about the Latino voting bloc, they're betting on this one idea. And that is the fact that there are some Latinos that are so Americanized and assimilated now that they too will sort of buy into the nativism. That they too will look at, here are the words, ‘Send them back,’ and not at all see themselves reflected in that ‘them.’”
Just so you know, when Ramos says “Americanized” and “assimilated” she really means “aligned to whiteness”:
"For so many years the story of 'Latinidad'...revolved around this idea that... in order to achieve the American Dream, our parents or the older generation of Latinos...had to get as aligned as possible to whiteness...assimilate, and conform to this idea...of what Latinos were." pic.twitter.com/MuSoBOiPDy
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 8, 2021
Whether Bash simply regurgitated something she read while on the toilet a few hours earlier, or held these deep-seated bigotries for a long time is not for me to determine or relevant to this conversation. What is problematic is the Regime Media now vocally beginning the process of maligning minority communities that do not fall in line with Democrats a month ahead of the election.
Expect this nonsense to intensify if polling among these communities is consistent, and especially if Trump wins.
