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When Donald Trump takes the stage in distant Nashville, cheers break out in a posh Miami airport hotel bar. “Four more years,” they shout towards the screens showing the second and final debate between the president and his challenger Joe Biden.
Several Latino groups that support Trump had invited the “surveillance party.” To the right of one of the televisions, two masts are placed at a distance of two meters; attached to it: the flag of the United States and Venezuela. The advertising wall behind him bears the logo of the “Venezuelan American Republican Alliance.
After the American president was elected four years ago, there was a lot of talk about his popularity with white workers. A prototype of the Trump voter etched itself on the consciences of many: whites and mostly men, with no college degrees, affected by the death of industry and abandoned in a globalized world.
The president’s supporters, who gathered in Miami that night, personify the exact opposite in several ways. Multilingual and generally more educated, they move easily and often across borders, at least outside of times of a global pandemic. Summer dresses, jackets and shoes are evidence of success or at least prosperity.
