Posted on 02/25/2020 8:58:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's hard not to be a conservative and revel in the chaos that the dominance of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is causing in the Democrat Party presidential primaries, as their establishment works to reject their party's populist choice similar to what the Republicans tried to do to Donald Trump in 2016.
Like with the Republicans in 2016, it will be difficult for the Democrat elites to reject the people's choice. Sanders' lead is demonstrable, perhaps even insurmountable, with all of the momentum accumulated behind him, as his competitors dilute the vote of waning moderate and conservative voters among Democrats. Every poll released shows him with a bigger lead than the last, and he is a victory in South Carolina from running away with the nomination. The best bet for the Democrat establishment may be to rip delegates from Sanders during a convention coup, which may mean blood in the Milwaukee streets.
Conservatives can scoff at the news that Democrats believe that Sanders is the candidate most likely to unseat President Trump in November, but after closely examining Sanders' coalition, it's not far-fetched at all. While Sanders' supporters are often stereotyped as lily white leftists densely packed around college campuses in places like Portland, Seattle or Berkeley, that is far from the truth, as Sanders' base is stronger and much more diverse than his opponents are willing to admit.
To the largely-Hispanic immigrants who now occupy the country in record numbers, Sanders far-left beliefs do not sound crazy. They sound moderate in comparison to the politics in the nations from which they have escaped. Although they left those countries, their cultural values did not change as soon as they placed their feet on the magical dirt in the land of the free. They may see America as the land of milk and honey, but that milk and honey is to be extracted from the former majority to the rising soon-to-be majority through the political process.
While many conservatives laughed at the "Squad" for endorsing an old, white career politician for the presidency, they were certainly politically adept to do so from their perspectives. Sanders paved the way for the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to gain prominence. He was her ideological predecessor, and his beliefs are representative of the ideals held by her people. Sanders won by a much greater margin in Nevada than he did in Iowa or New Hampshire because of his Hispanic support, with an amazing 53 percent of Latinos supporting him. Sanders' revolution is a vanguard that will be unstoppable, if not during this election cycle, then in the near future, should demographic trends continue unimpeded.
Recent results from a Pew Research study show that an overwhelming majority of Hispanics support a drastic increase of government control. Researchers found that "most Hispanic voters (71%) say the government should do more to solve problems, while 27% say government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals." This pertains to health care, gun control, minimum wage policies, and virtually every other issue. These findings bust the myth that Hispanics are natural conservatives due to their belief in Christianity and strong familial bonds.
Even Hispanics within the Republican Party support more government, with results indicating that Latinos drive the GOP away from conservatism with their presence in the Party. Sixty-two percent of Hispanic registered voters who are Republican or lean Republican favor increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Forty-seven percent of the same demographic supports government-run health care, with only 4 percent more Hispanics supporting free market care. A plurality of Hispanic Republican voters support more gun control at 44 percent. Growing the Republican Party in the new America necessarily entails the death of the conservative movement.
There are four million new Hispanic voters who will be able to participate in the 2020 election. Sanders is the candidate with the ideology for which they are predisposed. Couple this with a candidate who they have been propagandized to believe is literally committing a genocide against their people, they could easily show up in record numbers. They certainly have every incentive to do so. Meanwhile, millions of Trump supporters - those who remember what America used to be and how far it has strayed from greatness - have unfortunately passed away since 2016. This could create the perfect storm that puts a Marxist ideologue into office in November.
The Republican establishment solution will be to become more conciliatory to the Hispanic community by endorsing amnesty, paying lip service to the benefits of diversity, cutting taxes for corporations that hire illegal aliens, etc. There will certainly be operatives in President Trump's ear telling him to go in that direction, but he would be wise to reject that counsel. As every piece of data gathered shows, the political differences are cultural and that gap cannot be bridged regardless of the occasional outlier.
What Trump needs to do is double-down on the formula that initially put him into the Oval Office. He needs to make the point, as he has brilliantly done throughout his presidency, that he is the last thing standing in the way of the total annihilation of America. Immigration needs to be at the center of that argument. As liberals will readily admit while many conservatives remain in denial, demographics are in fact destiny. Nothing short of the deportation of so-called DREAMers and a long-term moratorium on legal immigration will solve the problems facing America. Trump needs his base as white hot as the Hispanic base will be under Sanders in order to assure victory. This will only be achieved through strength, not capitulation.
Socialism is taking money from those who worked hard and earned it until there is no more left, and then taking that too, and then switching over to communism because that was the end goal from the start.
As millions of non-producers reach our shores, naturally they want all they can get from us and so will vote for marxists like sanders and warren.
Illegals and Spoiled kids that gotTROPHIES for NOTHING, horrible schooling and parenting
California is the demographic template to fundamentally transform America into a s^hole former Republic.
Never understood why you’d escape a sh!thole only to make your new home the same old sh!thole you just got out of. Not just internationally either.
Look at all the folks behind Bernie in photos. 80% Latinos or brownies (paki, muslim etc)
Here in Florida where its always close, I see this as a wipeout if Bernie
is the Dem candidate.
We have so many Cubans and Venezuelan refugees from Socialism
and they vote.
Could be we have a winner in Florida in minutes on election day
even before the Panhandle polls close. How about that.
Also, Dems reading Bernies attacks on Israel and AIPAC need to
worry about the Jewish vote.
This is going to be a rout , and if the Dems steal it from Bernie the youth and ultra left 30 to 40% won’t show up to vote for the Dems.
Mission Impossible my name for the Bernie candidacy
The blind panic in the DNC and among the non-Sanders Partisan Media Shills will subside when Sanders loses a few primaries.
If he finishes close or beats Biden in SC. I say Bernie has the momentum to win big on Super Tuesday.
Dems have a bunch of misfits from the Star Wars bar scene
running. And non of them is as favored by their Socialist
base.
Lets not forget that Asians (fastest growing source of immigrants) vote just as heavily Dem as Hispanics and that Asian Indians (big factor in my state) are the most Democratic ethnic group after African Americans.
These people are culturally (and perhaps genetically) conditioned to be peasants, and dont complain about a totalitarian government no matter how dysfunctional and oppressive it might be.
Sorry Gavin but....this is fearmongering. Bernie would be utterly crushed by Trump if he doesn’t get screwed over by the Democrat Party Establishment first.
There are no moderate Democrat voters!
The Hispanic immigrants that I know love Trump.
Sorry, Wax. You may be a swell conservative but your grammar and composition levels are lamentable — from the opening sentence. Call me a petty grammar nazi, which itself is an inarticulate defense, but you need Remedial English Composition.
And MANY millions of non producing offspring of citizens :)
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