The same young Latino voters who swung to Donald Trump in 2024 just handed New York to Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani - and no, they haven't changed their minds about anything. Strategist Mike Madrid explains why the fastest-growing bloc in American politics is walking out on both parties at once. 

Madrid - author of The Latino Century - joins the show to blow up the way both parties read the Latino vote. His case: what looks like voters lurching right, then left, then right again is actually a dealignment - a conscious rejection of the entire two-party system, driven by class and generation far more than ethnicity. The crew digs into California's Latino turnout surge behind Becerra, why New York's closed primaries produced a dismal 9% turnout, and what really went down at the first-ever National Latino Summit in D.C. Stick around for his blunt advice on how voters can break the cycle of partisanship.

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00:00:00 – The Latino Vote: America's Most Misunderstood Bloc
00:01:04 – Dealignment, Not Realignment: Leaving Both Parties
00:03:00 – It's Not Ethnic — Latinos Vote Their Class
00:04:44 – The Turnout Story: California Surges, New York Flatlines
00:09:32 – Inside the First-Ever National Latino Summit
00:13:24 – Conscious Disaffiliation and the Under-30 Surge
00:16:24 – Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, and Starving Voters
00:18:06 – Are Latinos Really Going Socialist?
00:20:22 – Adams to Trump to Mamdani in Four Years
00:23:24 – The Fix Nobody Wants to Hear: Leave Your Party
00:30:04 – The Voting-Rights Case Headed to Court
00:34:06 – Mike's Book, Substack, and Where to Follow