2016 Postmortem

Very adamantly.

And it was mostly the jobs, but he also liked the idea of heavily scrutinizing immigration and getting control of it, both because he is worried about terrorists and because he thinks uncontrolled immigration is an attempt to drive down the wages of most workers in order to replicate a plantation-like economy (from which he fled) to destroy workers' rights and ability to negotiate. He thinks the rising violence in this country is partly due to declining economic opportunities. He also thinks uncontrolled immigration is brutally unfair to the citizens of this country who have been deprived and now can't work their way out of it.

He's a very intelligent man, a retired scientist holding patents, spent his early life in acute poverty, gained an education and a career, and junked that to come to the US because of the safety and human dignity in this country. Then he went back to school and started his career all over again.

He would have walked 50 miles to vote for Trump. He thought Trump offered some hope for his children and grandchildren.

Who is he? A bigot? No, not only is he brown-skinned himself, but he's the kindest man I have ever met. He has an eclectic circle of friend of all backgrounds and ethnicities. He can't pass a person in trouble without stopping to help (probably because of his brutal early experiences), and certainly would not treat a person differently based on skin color, etc.

Thirty-one percent of Hispanics voted for Trump, and I think it was because of economics.