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Feb 10, 2026
Adrian Carrasquillo, journalist covering immigration and Latino culture and author of the Huddled Masses newsletter. He unpacks the backlash to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl set. He explores Trump and MAGA’s cultural fury. He examines why working-class support for Trump is slipping and how immigration politics and cultural signals intersect.
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Working-Class Support Is Crumbling
- Harry Enten's polling shows Trump's support among non-college (working-class) voters swung 23 points against him.
- This collapse means Trump's 2024 working-class coalition is unraveling and is a major vulnerability for his campaign.
Interior Enforcement Turns Voters Away
- Adrian Carrasquillo says immigration enforcement has become a visible policy that alienates voters when it touches neighborhoods and citizens.
- Seeing ICE raids and interior enforcement converted abstract concern into direct backlash against Trump and MAGA.
Cultural Joy Versus Dehumanizing Politics
- Adrian describes Bad Bunny's Super Bowl set as cultural, joyful, and rooted in Puerto Rican experiences like post-Maria power outages.
- That cultural affirmation contrasts with MAGA's dehumanizing politics and explains why the performance resonated widely.