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Column: Why it's wrong to blame Trump's victory on Latino men

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Ruben Navarrette : Democrats are soul-searching in the political wilderness after Trump 's win over Kamala Harris .

He says Latino men who supported the Republican presidential candidate didn't see it as a threat to the ones in their ancestral lands.

The idea that Trump won by bringing Latino men into his coalition of the cruel is already a talking point for the chattering class, he says.

But that ignores an overall shift in Latino support for Trump .

Ruben Navarrette : It's not just hubristic hombres who fell under the Trump spell of a better economy and an end to wokeness.

The other big reason why Latino men went for Trump is the Democratic Party , which took them for granted for decades and alienated them repeatedly during the Trump era, he says.

He says Latinos care more about economic issues and have become increasingly hawkish on the border now that their familes have established themselves in this country.