Posted on 10/18/2018 11:45:54 AM PDT by Hojczyk
This is all a long preface for setting up notice of Thomas Edsall’s column in the New York Times today,
Over the past 18 years, the Democratic electorate has moved steadily to the left, as liberals have displaced moderates. . . From 2001 to 2018, the share of Democratic voters who describe themselves as liberal has grown from 30 to 50 percent, according to data provided by Lydia Saad, a senior editor at the Gallup Poll. . .
Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward. According to Gallup, the share of white Democrats calling themselves liberal on social issues has grown since 2001 from 39 to 61 percent. Because of this growth, white liberals are now roughly 40 percent of all Democratic voters.
Edsall does not shrink from pointing out some truly astonishing findings in the survey data, like this:
White liberals are well to the left of the black electorate on some racial issues. Take the issue of discrimination as a factor holding back African-American advancement. White liberals are to the left of black Democrats, placing a much stronger emphasis than African-Americans on the role of discrimination and much less emphasis on the importance of individual effort.
Hmmm. . . Maybe this is related to the polls showing surprising levels of black approval of Trump, and the apparent apathy of Hispanic voters about Democrats.
Toward the end Edsall quotes Harvard’s Yascha Mounk (mentioned here recently), who warns his fellow liberals:
One of the dangers for the Democratic Party — and the left-leaning parts of the establishment more broadly — is that they confound their actual audience with a small but highly visible group of activists.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
I wonder if there is a red wave instead of a blue wave next month the Democrats will increase their calls for violence against the Republicans.
Over the past 18 years, the Democratic electorate has moved steadily to the left, as liberals have displaced moderates. . “
Liberals haven’t displaced moderates. Leftists have displaced moderates.
JFK and Harry Truman wouldn’t be allowed in the Democrat Party of today.
Maybe they can call it “The Long March”?
A Red Wave will make them double down and they’ll really go berserk. A Blue Wave would make them double down.
We ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Bet on it. They will continue to escalate until BOOM!
The communists Democrats will destroy America. They are as evil as any communists Country in the world.
They’ve arrived.
Communist Party unites behind Hillary
https://www.wnd.com/2016/08/communist-party-unites-behind-hillary/
That really is an astonishing point, and highlights the paternalistic, condescending white leftist attitude towards minorities - that even with great individual effort, they cannot hope to reach white levels of success.
Public schools and Universities have moved to the extreme left. Look no further than indoctrination of students over the last 40 years. A college campus has it’s own police force, under the supervision of the administrators who welcome protests and violent confrontations.
Is that a rhetorical question?
It’s interesting that for blacks the self-identified ideological breakdown is apparently 30/40/30 liberal/moderate/conservative, and not all that much different for other minorities. If the GOP can ever get out from under the “racissss” tag, that’s 30+% support from blacks and other minority groups sitting there for the taking. No wonder the Democrats scream “racist!!!” at Republicans at every opportunity.
It’s more than small, highly visible radicals pushing people to #walkaway, it is that MANY high profile DemocRats are egging them on.
There is no question mark at the end of that sentence but if I had put one the I suspect the majority of answers would have been yes.
Yup, there is nothing liberal about leftists.
White leftists are the true racists.
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