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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast.

Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassel, a podcast from the Wall Street Journal opinion pages.

As both parties continue to explore what went right for them or wrong for them in November,

I am very fortunate to be here with Mike Madrid, long time political consultant and

author of a book released this spring that might have been viewed as a guide to this recent

election. It's called the Latino Century, How America's Largest Minority is Transforming Democracy.

Mike, welcome to the show. Kim, thanks so much for having me. So, Mike, the notion that

minority voters, in particular Latino-Hispanic voters, were becoming more definitive to electoral

outcomes is not a new one. But here is what has changed over the past 20 years. I am old

enough to remember, you are old enough to remember,

20 years ago, the reigning political theory was that, yes, Latino voters would begin to define

politics, but they would do so with a result of an enduring Democratic party dominance.

And that obviously is not what we're seeing. That scenario has changed while the majority

of Latino voters did still vote for Democrats in the election, an unprecedented number, a big numbers of

them voted for Republicans up and down tickets. And they will be a very big reason that Republicans

have unified control in Washington come January.

What's changed over those 20 years? Where did that prior analysis go wrong?

Well, Kim, that's a really great intro and observation of what's happening.

That was actually the kind of the thesis of the book and the argument that I was making as much of a prediction as it was sort of a warning.

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