Lost in the stories about ridiculous misogynists who are thrilled with the election results and the stories of Trump’s idiotic plans for his upcoming appointments are the voters who are finding out they were fooled.

It is, of course, difficult to feel sorry for Trump voters. There was an abundance of reasons derived entirely from character flaws that should have prevented any thinking person, any compassionate person, from voting for him.

But the fact is, reader, that you and I are different than most people. We watch and read more news. We think more in the “big picture.” We are, simply put, more engaged.

I think it’s probably a conservative estimate to think that at least a quarter of Trump voters are not.

People know what affects them. When gas prices go up, they think that there’s something that could be done and isn’t being done. When eggs cost more, their families’ hunger sounds an alarm bell that Republicans are more than happy to answer with lies about inflation.

The reality is, not everyone who voted for Trump was a rape-happy Proud Boy supporter who hates women and thinks Haitians ate their cat. Some of them were just, well, ignorant. I’ll stop short of saying stupid, because again, not everyone is like you, reader. It’s not stupid to not know something, or even to misunderstand something. It’s just uninformed.

Unfortunately, the uninformed are in for a very rude awakening.

That’s the case with the Latino Trump voter you’re about to see. This man wasn’t just fooled. He bought into the Trump lies so much that he bought the red MAGA visor with the weird built-in Trump hair.

Latino Trump voter believes Trump will not deport “family oriented” Latinos since that would be “unfair.” pic.twitter.com/iYXAZiFy1G

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) November 11, 2024

“If they let in hundreds of thousands of people who already have criminal records, if deporting them creates a ‘mass deportation,’ I’m all for it,” this unidentified man said on CNN after Trump claimed victory.

“But what if, rounded up in all of that, are people that work on a farm, doing the jobs that Americans don’t want to do? Does that worry you?” asked the host.

“That wouldn’t be fair, of course. You know, they need to make sure that they don’t throw away, they don’t kick out, they don’t deport people that are family-oriented,” the man replies.

This is the part that makes me the saddest. Because it’s a double-edged sword for commentary here: On the one hand, screw that guy and his “I got mine” attitude, right?

But on the other hand, even if he does sound selfish when it comes to immigration benefiting him but not others, he really honestly believed the Trump lies about millions of murderers and rapists pouring across the border.

By the time Trump trotted out the number “15 million” this year as the number of criminals who had made it across the border, the official estimate from Customs and Border Patrol — not known for their restraint in exaggerating numbers themselves — was that there had only been a little over 7 million encounters at the southern border over the last three and a half years.

Are we all clear on what an “encounter” is? Because it’s not a successful border crossing. And obviously we didn’t see 7 million criminals trying to get in. The vast majority of encounters happened with women and children.

That man was fooled, unfortunately, and the reason you know in advance that he’s going to be sorely disappointed in his own vote is because of not only who Trump is — a liar — but because of who he’s putting in charge of things.

Remember Tom Homan, Trump’s first Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief? Trump just named him “border czar,” whatever that means. Here’s Tom Homan on 60 Minutes:

This is not a man concerned with fairness, mi amigo.

And what about Stephen Miller? You know, that guy everyone jokes around and says looks like Nosferatu, but really they mean it because he probably sleeps upside-down in a crypt? He’s got a job upcoming in the administration, too:

Okay, once again, it’s quiz time. Raise your hand if you know what “denaturalization” means. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Okay, then, how about the term “naturalized citizen,” do we know that one? Yeah, that’s the one where immigrants take classes and learn some English and some civics and take a test and all stand in a classroom and raise their right hands and become Americans.

Denaturalization is the same thing, only backwards, and without the hand-raising or, you know, choosing to do it. What does everyone think, does that sound a little unfair?

The poor man in the video you watched probably just voted himself out of the country, based on that accent.

Don’t forget stories like these, readers. If other people aren’t going to be as engaged as you and I, we have to fight on their behalf. We have to make sure that people understand what they’re getting themselves into.

Most has to be done at the top. But we can help make that change down here too. Let’s start by talking to our neighbors.