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The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang)
🕑 Added 2025-08-18 10:30:02 +0000 UTCA major topic following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that's scrambled many people's assumptions about American politics, not least those of anti-racist liberals. Why have minority voters drifted toward Trump, despite his many comments and campaign pledges that demonize or disparage them? To try to understand this phenomenon, we talked to Daniel Martinez HoSang, who has studied the minorities entering the GOP coalition, not only but especially in the MAGA era, including extraordinarily rich interview with people of color on the right attending Turning Point USA conference, CPAC, Trump rallies, following right wing influencers, and more.
Sources:
Daniel Martinez HoSang, "Inside the Rise of the Multiracial Right," New York Times, July 24, 2025
Daniel Martinez HoSang, Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone, (2023)
Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Race and Difference, (2021)
Joseph E. Lowndes & Daniel Martinez HoSang, Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (2019)
Joseph E. Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism (2008)
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Comments
Simone MG
There's not usually much benefit to being a month behind on my favorite podcasts, but in this case, I got to hear your undiluted thoughts on Mr. Kirk before anything had happened to him. Loved it. Thank you.
Barb Brents
I especially love the dialectical ruminations on the future. There is hope! Maybe, probably not. How can I get a transcript of this and other episodes?
mary lingwall
I don’t know which podcast recommended it but I’d love a IBCK/54pod/KnowYrEnemy/-Unclear&PresentDangerPod roundtable deep dive into Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson. For the people. Plz. Love, Mary And you should find a qualified guest probably.
Nik
Great episode—kind of forms a sequel to your old interview with Max Alvarez on working-class conservatism
Harry Brussel
This was a wonderful episode. I will say from my own experiences with family members who immigrated from Ecuador, the sense that Democrats won't deliver on their promises is exactly why a lot of them 'took the chance' on Trump. To this point, I think it’s underrated how much Biden’s abject failure to do anything to fix the broken immigration system, and then Kamala’s ‘border hawk’ campaign, hurt Dems with Hispanic voters. “Neither party will do anything on immigration” is something I still hear again and again, even as many now say they regret voting for Trump.
