On consequences
I remember on Nov. 5, 2024. Our own Rational Left texted me the first exit poll. It hit me like a gutpunch. It was the poll which showed Latino men voting for Trump by ten points. At first I had a hard time processing it. You know how off exit polls can be. Surely there's a spanner in the works. This can't be right. As it turned out, it was incorrect. Data afterwards showed Latino men going for Trump 50% to 49%. But it was cold comfort. Aside from Florida, which is filled by my fellow Cubans, in 2020 Latino men voted for Joe Biden by nineteen points . In 2024, in Texas and Florida, Latino men went for Donald Trump by the same margin if not more. This was when I knew that we had to suffer the consequences of our actions. We betrayed not only ourselves, but groups—specifically Black and Jewish communities—which had been our allies. We betrayed Latinas, who voted in landslides for Kamala Harris. We betrayed this country. We betrayed our cousins in Latin America. We voted for a ma...
