Why right-wingers are having some success with voters of color

I don't agree with everything in this interview. But a lot of it does seem to me to be valid, though it does reflect an unfortunate, unpleasant reality that I certainly wish wasn't happening.

We’re witnessing the cumulative impact of much deeper developments that have been underway for longer than a decade. The deep ambivalence with institutional politics and institutions themselves, across the political spectrum, is at the heart of this. I’ve recently been doing interviews with conservatives of color, and there’s little sense right now of buyers’ remorse. Instead, the alienation and sheer disgust with what they perceive as the stasis of contemporary politics is so sharp that they’re alongside much of the hardcore MAGA base in being quite willing to watch things get dismantled and attacked.

In the conference we recently organized on the multiracial Right, we tracked the many inroads this is happening through — religion, gender, militarism, immigration enforcement, appeals to entrepreneurship and frustrations over public institutions. There’s not one story that accounts for the turn of many people of color toward the Right. - In These Times