In Mexican culture we have songs called “corridos” which are basically folk songs about “heroes” and cartel bosses, and Donald Trump has been immortalized in norteño music! This song has spread virally across the internet, heard by millions. I distinctly recall a similar song appeared following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
I’m eternally surprised the assassination attempt has not done more to boost Trump’s popularity. On the other hand, it’s not surprising to see a song genre praising criminals and narcos now featuring Donald Trump.
“Una cosa me da risa, Pancho Villa sin camisa
Ya se van los carancistas
porque vienen los villistas.”
One man’s criminal is another man’s hero. To us, Pancho Villa was a bandit. To Mexicans, he was a hero of legendary proportions. As the famed Dorados, the golden soldiers of Pancho Villa, road along they’d sing ever new verses of the famed revolutionary song La cucaracha whose first verse appears above. It was Villa who broke the back of the dictator Victoriano Huerta at the Battle of Zacatecas. Interestingly, Villa’s army was led by General Felipe Angeles whose son turned out to be my boss when I taught at Pensacola Junior College.
The expected refrain of a Trump supporter.
Hard when the largest propaganda machine that’s ever existed is tasked with making sure you are not liked.
Look at the leftist attacks being made on Elon Musk. Before his buying Twitter, he was the darling of the left. Elon followed in Trump’s footsteps of being loved, then reviled. The left is fighting populist movements everywhere. Things are shaking loose in Europe as hostile immigrants are wreaking havoc on Western Civilization. You’ll recall I set out the warning about Islam almost two decades ago. Islam is inimical to democracy.
That’s the wrong narrative, bikki. Musk was a hero of the left for championing EVs, but he moved from California to Texas after a change in his political alignment. The change of opinion was probably pretty mutual on both sides, but by the time he even mentioned buying twitter he was already persona non grata on the West Coast.