Sanctimony is just another form of insult
SAN DIEGO -- Allies can sometimes be more insufferable than adversaries.
I'd almost forgotten how condescending, sanctimonious and judgmental the Latino left can be. Then, recently, I got a reminder.
You may not be familiar with the term, but you probably know the cohort. The
Latino left was baptized Democrat, and it hates Republicans. It gives Democrats a
pass, even when Democratic leaders pursue policies that harm Latinos -- on trade,
education, immigration, etc. It'll condemn Republican Donald Trump for demonizing Latino immigrants as "bad hombres," but it turned a deaf ear when Democrat Barack Obama called them "gangbangers." It only got "woke" to the plight
of immigrants when Trump took office.
Politically, the Latino left is a cheap date. It voted for Bill Clinton, who
militarized the U.S.-Mexico border and signed into law a 1996 immigration bill that
made it easier to deport people and harder for them to return. Then it supported
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