During the GOP’s pre-MAGA era, many prominent Republicans — including the Bush family and strategist Karl Rove — viewed Latinos, both white and non-white, as crucial to their party’s growth. President Ronald Reagan famously said, “Hispanics are conservative. They just don’t know it.” Cuban-Americans in Florida have been voting GOP for generations, but as Reagan, the Bushes and Rove saw it, Democrats would be in trouble if enough Mexican-Americans in the Southwest and the Midwest and Puerto Ricans in the Northeast went Republican. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has had a minority outre…