ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analyses of the 2018 National Survey of Latinos (NSL) data, which was collected almost two years after the 2016 NSL, and nearly 20 months into the presidential administration of Donald Trump. The election of President Trump has encouraged the normalization of white nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric and sentiment among large swaths of Republican partisans at both the elite and mass level, the disregard for basic democratic norms by the president and his adherents, and saturation coverage in the media of scandal and malfeasance within the Trump administration. The 2018 NSL includes three identically worded questions contained in the 2002–2016 NSL datasets. Presidential approval of Barack Obama among Latinos in the aggregate decreased by 12 percentage points between 2010 and 2014. It is unclear whether the next two years of the Trump administration will show a continuation of the patterns evident in analyses that include 2018 NSL data.
