Free Market Loving Conservatives Should Love What It’s Doing To Trump

Posted by | July 11, 2015 22:00 | Filed under: Economy Politics

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It’s the free market that is dictating the Latino response to Donald Trump.  They wield purchase power, and are willing to withhold dollars if necessary. Isn’t that what the free market is all about.

When Donald Trump described Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug smugglers last month, Latinos took to social media to express their outrage and urge businesses to sever ties with the billionaire presidential candidate.

In short order, more than 10 organizations canceled their deals with Trump, in what Latino activists are calling an unprecedented recognition of their economic clout.

Latino spending power will hit $1.5 trillion this year, up 50 percent from 2010, according to the Nielsen Co, which analyzes consumer spending trends.

“Latino millennials have purchasing power and they’re not going to tolerate Trump’s comments,” said Luis Fitch, a Mexican-American co-founder of UNO Branding, a marketing consultancy in Minneapolis. “Corporations understand the numbers, they don’t want to risk this.”

Hispanics under 30 were the single largest group behind a high-profile “Dump Trump” petition to Macy’s Inc, which got more than 730,000 signatures, according to Angelo Carusone, organizer of the petition by liberal activists Moveon.org.

You love the free market? Live by it and die by it.

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8 responses to Free Market Loving Conservatives Should Love What It’s Doing To Trump

  1. bpollen July 11th, 2015 at 22:23

    Republicans believe that nothing is fair unless it breaks their way, that’s why it’s funny!

    • whatthe46 July 11th, 2015 at 22:30

      they created this, they asked for it and they got it! and i’m loving every minute of it.

  2. Marget July 12th, 2015 at 02:39

  3. FASCandAL July 12th, 2015 at 08:29

    The free market has made Trump one of the richest men in America. Is that what you are referring to?

    • Hirightnow July 12th, 2015 at 11:52

      Bankruptcy laws haven’t hurt, either.

      • Tommie July 12th, 2015 at 13:10

        Especially, with the “lawyers”, Trump has.

  4. Warman1138 July 12th, 2015 at 09:27

    Hah! I get to say it first…IRONY, it’s a bitch isn’t it.

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