Our Latin American Future

In June 2020, the Democratic political action committee Priorities USA launched a campaign ad in Florida aimed at Hispanics. “Our families didn’t come to America to trade one caudillo for another,” the voiceover said to a clip of Donald Trump standing next to Jair Bolsonaro. “We don’t need a caudillo, we need a caballero like Joe Biden.” The Lincoln Project launched a similar caudillo-themed ad campaign in September. “We know a dictator when we see one,” tweeted Lincoln Project cofounder Mike Madrid over two photographs of men each with one...