Donald Trump is the Prop 187 president

Californians got behind this GOP-backed ballot initiative in 1994. And then the backlash began. The same thing will happen to Trump.

An opponent of Proposition 187.
(Image credit: Jeremy Hogan / Alamy Stock Photo)

During the 2016 election, many commentators (including yours truly) predicted that Latino voters were going to guarantee Donald Trump's defeat. The Republican Party already had a problem with the country's largest minority group, but nominating a white nationalist who wanted to build a wall on the Mexican border would make that problem even worse. Latinos would surely vote against Trump in huge numbers, propelling Hillary Clinton to the White House.

Obviously, that didn't happen. But that doesn't mean the anti-Trump backlash will never come.

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Paul Waldman

Paul Waldman is a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and he is the author or co-author of four books on media and politics.