By taking more of the Hispanic vote than any Republican since the U.S. government created the ethnic category in 1977, President-elect Donald Trump has dismantled a coalition that the Left had expected to ride to power throughout the 21st century. That alone bodes well for conservative governance.
Voters who self-identified as Hispanic broke for Trump at an astonishing 46% rate, which means the actual percentage is likely higher if these early estimates hold. Hispanic men in particular voted for him at a 55-45 rate. These votes might have cost Vice President Kamala Harris the election.
Politically, this was a tsunami. Trump romped through the Rio Grande Valley, a hallowed corner of southeastern Texas tucked into the Mexican border, where he won all four counties, something no Republican had done in the past two centuries. All the counties are well over 90% Mexican-American,…
