In a recent interview with the Spanish media outlet El Intermedio, Univision's senior news anchor, Jorge Ramos, was completely upfront in revealing his disdain for the sizeable segment of U.S. Latinos who vote for Republicans, including for Donald Trump.

When El Intermedio correspondent Guillermo Fesser asked Ramos to explain how it is possible that Republicans nationally consistently capture about a third of the Latino electorate (and in a prime battleground state like Florida, significantly more) Ramos candidly responded that these are the Latino voters who (evidently unlike himself, and Democrat voters) are "totally identified" with the United States, and who have socially conservative values that more closely align with the GOP.

JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: There are people that feel totally identified with this country, that believe the same things that Donald Trump believes. If you vote for someone, you partially resemble that. And also that, among Latinos, there are very conservative values that are commonly held with the Republican Party, President Trump’s party. The, the religious issue, the importance of family, the abortion issue. This explains, in part, why one out of three Hispanics vote for Donald Trump and is so conservative.

This statement amounts to another version of his infamous post-2016 election denunciation of Hispanic Trump voters as those who “forgot their origins.” That was exactly his explanation back then, in an interview with Carmen Aristegui.

CARMEN ARISTEGUI: How do you explain...well, everything, but how do you explain the Latino vote? Something unnatural, something absurd, something that is not understandable, unless you have some sort of an idea that helps understand what is not easy (to understand)? JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: I don't know what numbers you are looking at, Carmen, I've heard, but there's still some missing, that he could have attained 30% (of the Latino vote). CARMEN ARISTEGUI: Oof. JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: This greatly surprised me, because Romney, with his 27%, lost four years ago. The only way to explain it is (that) immigrants or the children of immigrants that forgot their origins, and then, of course, you have to be very honest here.

If you “forgot your origins” in 2016, it stands to reason that you would “totally identify with this country” (the one that you live in and work in and raise your kids in, by the way) in 2018, at least according to Ramos’ rationale (or lack thereof).

As the full transcript of his El Intermedio interview below reveals, Ramos disdainfully framed this state of play as “inexplicable”, as if it were impossible to believe that any number of Hispanics, much less 29%, would place their own priorities and self-interest above his favored brand of racial and identity politics.

Ramos’ schtick is by no means new. Earlier during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Ramos first accused Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio of race-betrayal, then subsequently celebrated their defeat in the primaries. Ramos also allowed former United States Treasurer Rosario Marín suggestion that Jeb Bush's stance on immigration made him “more Latino” than Cruz or Rubio to go unchallenged, and had the gall to ask Beto O'Rourke whether Cruz had “betrayed...other Latinos like him.”

Ramos’ later complaint in the El Intermedio interview about the alleged lack of “proportional representation” of Latinos in the United States Senate is also patently dishonest. You can’t whine about having “only four" out of 100 U.S. Senators, and then dismiss half of them (the Republican ones) as “race-traitors.”

As MRC Latino has previously documented, on this score Ramos is guilty of using the same ugly, race-based logic as white nationalist leaders such as Jared Taylor. But the reality is that Ramos doesn't really even buy into his own logic. At the end of the day, he would undoubtedly prefer and feel better represented in the United States Senate by more Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens than more Ted Cruzes and Marco Rubios.

There is also Ramos’ waving away of Hispanic social conservatives (note his take that you become what you vote for). The "religious issue”, as Ramos puts it, involving matters like abortion and religious freedom, is indeed a big deal for large numbers of Hispanics throughout the nation. In his crass reductionism, Ramos also fails to mention the large number of economically conservative Hispanics who, in many cases, don't want to see the United States become that which they left behind in their countries of origin. This should be no mystery to Ramos, a longtime resident of Miami.

Once again, what is bad news for Jorge Ramos is good news for conservatives. In 2018, many Hispanics continued to buck Ramos' wishes and vote Republican, particularly in key battleground states like Florida where, according to Pew Research, victorious Republican standard-bearers Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis garnered 45% and 44% of the Latino vote, respectively.

Below is a full transcript of the above-referenced interview by El Intermedio: