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It really isn't. They voted for Trump and the polling and interviews with Cuban Americans demonstrate that his propaganda of "Biden is a communist" worked.
To be fair, Trump really cratered in Miami-Dade in 2016, presumably because of focus on anti-hispanic themes. In 2020, when he stopped talking non-stop about Mexican rapists and building a wall, his standing with Cubans rebounded.
The "Democrats = socialism" ads surely did their job too. I wouldnt call it pure propaganda though. Leading up to the 2020 election, you literally had the government shutting down businesses, telling people how to behave and whom to meet in their private life. You had civil unrest caused by groups saying things like "we are trained marxists" and "yes, we mean literally abolish the police" who were emphatically supported by the Democratic party. And you had an increasingly public and influential strain within the Democratic party who are self-avowed socialists. Of course it's ridiculous to claim that the Biden/Harris ticket, the epitome of "corporate Democrats", will lead the country into socialism, but there was more than just a grain of truth to these ads.
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Conservative voters like populism, generally liberal policies, but are sensitive to propaganda that leads them to associate specific policies with "communism". If you poll The Affordable Care Act as Obamacare its support among Republicans drops massively. That alone is a pretty big point in favor of it. Less conservative voters will vote for populist candidates but they are largely starved for choice. Biden doesn't support populist policies although he does occasionally give them lip service.
Conservative voters very often like moderately liberal economic policies. Unfortunately, the Democrats are zooming left and going too far in their proposals to still appeal to these kinds of voters. Most Americans are open to better healthcare. But if you insist on abolishing all private insurance and forcing everyone, including the big big majority of Americans who do have healthcare insurance, to give up their current coverage and trust a government-run alternative, that's just a bridge too far.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jun 21 2021 04:09pm