Posted on 05/18/2022 8:47:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats have been bragging that ‘demographics is destiny’ for years. But a more diverse electorate isn’t voting the way they’d hoped.
In the immediate aftermath of the massacre in Buffalo, New York, where a deranged white supremacist killed 10 people, elite opinion quickly settled on the real culprit: Republicans.
The New York Times spelled it out explicitly in an editorial this week, claiming Republican politicians and conservative commentators like Tucker Carlson, “openly espouse versions of a white supremacist conspiracy theory holding that an orchestrated effort is underway to displace white Americans.”
The Times is of course referring to so-called “replacement theory,” the idea that global elites are trying to “replace” white Americans with immigrants and foreigners, which the Times thinks is a common belief among Republicans. Not to be outdone by the Times, the Washington Post’s editors on Monday declared, “what was once on the fringes has now been given currency, thanks to the Republican Party’s tolerance of white nationalists who count themselves as part of its base.”
The notion that “replacement theory” is mainstream on the right, much less in the GOP, is of course abject nonsense. But the accusation serves a purpose. By conflating the conspiracy theories of maniacs like the Buffalo shooter with legitimate calls for, say, border security and controls on illegal immigration, the left can smear all Republicans as white supremacists.
Doing so serves a useful purpose for Democrats. If Republicans are the party of people who believe global elites are trying to “replace” white Americans with immigrants and foreigners, then any calls to fix our immigration system or solve the ongoing crisis at the border must be in bad faith, nothing more than rank racism thinly disguised as a respectable-sounding immigration agenda.
It also serves Democrats in another way: it helps mask an electoral agenda they once openly espoused. It’s no secret that Democrats think mass illegal immigration will accrue to their electoral advantage over the long term. For years, they have felt comfortable saying so routinely on national television.
Indeed, the notion that “demographics is destiny” has been a long-running belief among Democrats, famously spelled out in John Judis and Ruy Teixeira’s widely acclaimed 2004 book, “The Emerging Democratic Majority.” Part of their argument rests on the assumption that immigration, legal and illegal, will swell the ranks of Democrat voters and hasten the inevitable emergence of a permanent Democratic majority.
That theory, whatever its merits in 2004 or 2013, is looking weaker by the year. Under President Trump, the Republican Party made huge inroads among black and Hispanic voters, especially in areas like south Texas and Florida, where Democrats’ theory of demographics would have suggested such GOP gains would be impossible.
It’s not just Republican voters who are getting more racially varied, but also Republican officeholders. As Henry Olsen noted after the 2020 election, which saw a record number of Republican women and minorities elected to the House, “every seat Republicans have flipped from blue to red has been captured by a woman or a minority.”
The Virginia statewide elections last year continued this trend, with a black woman, Winsome Sears, elected lieutenant governor, and an Hispanic man, Jason Miyares, elected attorney general. So much for the emerging Democratic majority.
But here’s the thing: Republicans didn’t come up with the “demographics is destiny” idea. Democrats did. For years, they bragged that rising levels of immigration and massive demographic change would usher in profound changes in U.S. politics. The Buffalo shooter went on and on about this in his idiotic manifesto, echoing similar diatribes from other racist mass shooters in recent years. Wonder where they got the idea?
It’s true that the country is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. That’s not a good thing or a bad thing, it’s simply a fact.
The problem for Democrats is that this more diverse electorate isn’t voting the way they hoped it would. In part, that’s because Republicans are waking up to the fact that immigration and border security, together with other commonsense policies like not letting rioters burn down neighborhoods and not shutting down the economy because of Covid, are issues that can broaden their base and bring in a more diverse array of voters.
All of which is to say, asinine white supremacist notions about how all the races should live separately have absolutely nothing to do with efforts to control illegal immigration, and most people know it. When Democrats try to smear Republicans as white supremacists for wanting a secure border, understand that they’re not just trying to demonize the right, they’re trying to change the subject. Illegal immigration is just about the last thing any Democrat wants voters thinking about heading into the midterms.
Why? Because the border is a complete disaster. According to the latest data, federal authorities arrested more than 234,000 illegal immigrants in April, yet another record-breaking monthly total. So far this fiscal year, nearly 1.3 million illegal border-crossers have been arrested along the southwest border, also a record.
Ordinary, non-white supremacist Americans of all races and walks of life look at this and think something must be very wrong at the border. They see news stories like the one this week about an industrial-scale drug-smuggling tunnel that federal authorities discovered on the California-Mexico border — six stories deep and the length of six football fields, with reinforced walls, electricity, ventilation and a rail system — and they wonder what’s going on in Mexico.
They are smart enough to know that drugs like fentanyl, which is ravaging American communities, come primarily from labs in northern Mexico that are controlled by powerful cartels. They also know that these cartels are in the business of drug and human trafficking, and that they profit off mass illegal immigration.
Voters are not stupid, certainly not stupid enough to believe that the GOP and Tucker Carlson are fomenting white supremacist conspiracy theories. But the editors at The New York Times and the Washington Post, along with every leading Democrat including the president, think they are. At this point, they’re counting on it.
If there’s any nexus with race it’s purely coincidence.
The replacement deals with people who have not be “assimilated” - those least familiar w/the “American way of life”. These are the most likely to fall for and support the socialist rackets of the left.
Just look at tech companies like google and twitter - full of H1B visa types who have no real respect for things like free speech. Their home country has no such consideration and that’s how they were raised to believe.
another guy, supposedly on our side, reassuring us that the tidal waves of illegals swarming our borders won’t be that bad because some of them will eventually vote republican. Dream on. Our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will be a despised minority in a 3rd World Dungheap thanks to the Media-Dem Party and their enablers in the republican party. No comforting words about some Hispanics and blacks voting republican are going to change that, not with the Media-Dem Party (joined by some republicans) spewing anti-white hatred day and night, which may be setting the stage for the “white genocide” that they ridicule as just “another conspiracy theory”.
The replacement that the crazy shooter was concerned with goes all the way back to the “Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion” and has to do with the global replacement of the white race by inter marriage and mass migration. I doubt that the shooter was concerned electoral politics.
“They are smart enough to know that drugs like fentanyl, which is ravaging American communities, come primarily from labs in northern Mexico that are controlled by powerful cartels.”
And those cartels own the democrat party.
Why the heck no republican will say it that clearly.
Essentially you are correct.
Ask the American Indians what they think of “Replacement theory.”
An unrelenting stream of immigration. nonstop, nonstop.
Folks like me who are caucasian, of European descent, for the first time in 2017 we'll be an absolute minority in the United States of America. Absolute minority.
Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock.
That's not a bad thing. That's a source of our strength.
2015. Huff Post headline
No, The way I see it, Democrats wages a good media blitz on Spanish Language TV and Radio as well as newspapers (they are Liberal like Telimundo) and the GOP ignored this group—so they made great inroads. They got to believe that Brown was the new Black. They are wrong and when Trump appealed to Latino Voters he did well. They have many reasons to support the GOP over Democrats.
1. Latinos are Religious—many are devout Catholica.
2. Many are Male dominant Machismo culture.
3. Many are in favor of a strong male leader—a MAGA King
4. Many do not see American Blacks in a positive way.
“Things are already changing.”
Your exuberance is great, but you might want to observe the product...both ways.
During the campaign for 2020, it was easily observed that Trump was drawing hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of prospective and supportive voters to events time after time while Biden and/or Harris couldn’t fill a library anteroom. From the amounts of prospective voters that were displaying the lack of intent to carry through for the lib party, even a blind person could understand there was no way victory could be assumed...yet it happened. And no one questioned it that could make a difference until the RINO’s made a show of doing nothing when it was too late. Now the house and the POTUS are under the control of socialists that are furthering the destruction of the country. Tack that on to more than questionable and proven RINO’s like this list, and you have not a lib victory but an intentional conserv loss. And those same RINOs are extending the destruction while the voters say okay.
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/elections/trump-support/
See a few names you know there?
“Hunger will awaken enough people”
It isn’t time yet for people to realize they are hungry, or be told they are. We already have hungry people in the US and while Trump was creating a way to get out of that taking the problem plan away from the libs that were creating its existence by his making the opportunity to construct the strongest real economy over the last couple of hundred years, the voters just said okay and we had business as usual with most of the same people in power and others being replaced at the polls voted in by programmed fools brought from the borders to replace those that could change it. And they’re getting more WD-40 to grease the conveyor belt as they are now openly starving children and the voters say, “okay.”
“Democrats will be left with pink-haired leftists who are interested in doing fun things with their private parts. Oh yes, and billionaires.”
If the voters don’t care enough to protect themselves, what else do they need? After all, they were okay before, okay for the future, and okay for any idiot that can pull a lever or ignore the lack of it. As POGO’s creator said. “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Until that’s changed, everyone will be on the same side...the one supporting the destruction of the US.
wy69
Your link is interesting as there was just a caller to the Todd Starnes show saying that never Trumpers were more of a problem than the Democrats. It was they, not Trump, who put the party in its current situation.
The caller’s point was that intentionally undermining your own party and its platform simply to save your own hide (or, at least that is the politicians’ perception) is not what is expected of a Republican.
In a nutshell, we don’t need Republicans to torpedo their own party, but that’s what we get.
It was Lieu who created the idea.
And, the Buffalo shooter was a socialist.
lolz, no kidding, I think its coming.
They called her the "face of white supremacy". Whiskey tango foxtrot.
DemocRATS routinely celebrate demographic data showing the reduction in the percentage of the White population in the U.S. and the increase in the percentage of minorities. Why would anyone be surprised that they would purposely enact policies that would promote that? Isn’t that by definition replacing Whites with minorities?
The democrats don’t open the border because they like enchiladas. It’s called Cloward Piven. Completely break the system by importing new replacement voters to guarantee they’ll never lose another election
“The caller’s point was that intentionally undermining your own party and its platform simply to save your own hide (or, at least that is the politicians’ perception) is not what is expected of a REPUBLICAN.
In a nutshell, we don’t need Republicans to torpedo their own party, but that’s what we get.”
Bad part is that I don’t expect any party to torpedo its own or visa versa. To think that this country is made up of one thinking group that has all the answers for the well being of all the people would make me just as ignorant as the voters the feds are depending on to screw up as they normally do. And the qualification for that is enough electricity between their ears to keep their arms and legs moving.
We vote in people in all the parties that are supposed to have ideas that help the people, all of them as best they can. They are not supposed to target voters for their next election and ignore those that have problems that don’t want them because they don’t do the job correctly. And these people in office are employees, not Gods. Voting is hiring for a temp job and allowing them to change your life. You would think people would use more sense. But they just as greedy, thus dishonest, as the politicians they vote in. The days of small town politics where if you didn’t like what was happening, you just move to the next town are over. That concept disappeared over 100 years ago. We no longer work that way. Now everything is comingled into addressing everything as it is part of the success equation of reaching Lazlo’s hierarchy.
Would you hire a person that can’t run your police department projecting your safety over a person who would who you don’t like that has proven he/she can run the department? It’s a simple equation: with what people saw with Biden and his inability to do some of the basic things with Harris in the same boat, how did they get elected? The voters were both stupid enough to vote for them, and not to question the process. The senate can’t question the voting process on Jan 6. That’s the states’ job. So what good was the riot? And while the voters looked stupid, the republicans walked for not doing their job at state level while the ones in congress had a dog to kick (Trump) and came out neat and pretty, still in office, and are at the beck and call of the socialists. The true picture of this is a blank canvass and no one with a paint brush is asking why that can’t make a difference (or wants to).
wy69
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