Are Republicans a Bunch of Racists?

Are Republicans a bunch of racists? That's certainly the narrative that the corporate media is pushing as hard as it can. The context this time is the tragic killing spree in Buffalo, New York, carried out by a mentally deranged racist whose online manifesto includes a whole slew of racist and antisemitic conspiracies.

Are those sorts of things part of mainstream Republican thought? As an Indian American immigrant and a conservative Republican, this is not what I have experienced in any manner.

The racism charge today is based mostly on an alleged "great replacement theory," which the left claims a number of top Republicans and conservatives subscribe to. This theory, that a cabal of elites and Jews wants to flood America with a new immigrant minority to displace white Americans, is not something I have ever heard espoused.

What I have heard by both Republicans and Democrats is the common belief that increased immigration from developing nations, both legal and illegal, will resound to help Democrats' electoral chances. Far from being controversial, this has been the accepted wisdom of both political parties for many years. The concept is not even an American invention. "Demographics is destiny" is a widely accepted concept originating from a 19th-century French academic.

Far from being a right-wing notion, this concept has been espoused by the Center for American Progress, the Clinton-associated left-wing think tank that, in 2013, published a paper titled "Immigration Is Changing the Political Landscape in Key States." The summary of the piece stated: "Supporting real immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future." The entire piece analyzed how increased Latin American and Asian immigration would help Democrats in a number of states. This was, again, conventional wisdom.

Both Asian and Latin American voters have traditionally favored Democrats. More of them will therefore help Democrats. That's been the theory. These are not new or controversial ideas. They were, in fact, well summarized in the widely cited 2002 book "The Emerging Democratic Majority" by liberal authors John Judis and Ruy Teixeira. A major part of their thesis was that the demographic changes in America, in part driven by immigration, were changing the electorate to favor the Democrats.

Nobody can really believe that these commonly held bipartisan beliefs are rooted in racism. They are, in fact, rooted in historical data. So where do all the racism charges come from? Many Republicans have repeated the basic "demographics is destiny" theory to rail against the nearly unfettered illegal immigration America is now facing. Their concerns have focused in part on the politics. Those pushing the charges of racism are leaving out some key details about this group.

The most prominent voices railing against illegal immigration are focused more than anything on the impact on working-class Americans of all colors from huge increases in relatively unskilled labor. Even most studies showing net economic benefits from immigration tend to admit that lower-skilled incumbent workers may be harmed by pressure to lower wages caused by a growing unskilled labor pool.

Which Americans are harmed most by this downward wage pressure? African Americans and Hispanics. It's quite a leap to say those concerned most with the well-being of existing American minorities are acting based on racist motivations, but that's the case many on the left are trying to make.

The most interesting aspect of today's obsession with race and immigration is that some of the conventional wisdom may actually be wrong. Recent elections are providing reason to question the entire "demographics is destiny" conventional wisdom altogether. Donald Trump made huge gains in his percentage of the Hispanic vote between 2016 and 2020. Hispanics favored Democrats by a 38-point margin in 2016 and only a 21-point margin in 2020, when nearly 4 in 10 Hispanic voters in America voted for Trump.

And maybe this is what's driving the hysteria. A party confident in its "demographics is destiny" future domination is realizing that the "enduring majority" future they imagined may be slipping away. The shift to date has been driven mostly by social and cultural policy. Many new Hispanic immigrants (and Asians, too) are more culturally conservative than the liberal base of the Democratic Party. If the populist wing of the Republican Party can stop tripping over itself and couple these cultural gains with a policy agenda that better fits working-class Americans of all backgrounds, then all bets are off. That's a five-alarm emergency for a partisan Democrat.

The vast majority of the American right today believes strongly in merit. The classic Martin Luther King Jr. "judge people on character and not skin color" notion is ascendant (while, ironically, this notion is now abandoned by the left). Conservatives have to repeat this as much as possible. On school admissions, on immigration and in every other policy area, this must be made clear. Along with that, there is a real political cost when any Republican does associate with the tiny fraction of the right who are driven by identity politics. The quickest way to prove that the "demographics are destiny" theory was right all along is for Republicans to be cavalier about these associations. Finally, when it comes to trade, immigration, tax policy, regulatory policy, energy policy and many other areas, the right has to be clearly driven by an agenda focused on the needs of regular Americans, including the Asian, Hispanic and Black Americans who are harmed by so many left-wing policies. If Republicans could ever pull that off, they truly would have an enduring majority.

A major part of their thesis was that the demographic changes in America, in part driven by immigration, were changing the electorate to favor the Democrats.

Nobody can really believe that these commonly held bipartisan beliefs are rooted in racism. They are, in fact, rooted in historical data.
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EVERY Bush League Republican that supports open borders/amnesty KNOWS they are assisting the Democrats to a permanent majority.

They only people who don’t know what they are doing are the idiots who keep re-electing them.

During the 70’s 80’s 90’s racism was all but a thing of the past in most ,towns and cities. There were pockets of,it here and there, butmfor,the most part folks,just got along and folks would just live and let live. Th3n came Obama, who race baited constantly, and the peddlers of racism like Sharpton, the ap, the msm came out of the woodwork condemning all white conservatives as racist, condemning the police as racist, claiming “systemic racism” despite the facts proving that to be a big fat lie.

Thr left were pissed that white folks died by the 100’s of 1000’s Ina war to free the slaves, and for many years did everything they could think of to keep black folks in slavery on the sly. When Republicans began pointing it out, the left too, their gloves off and pushed a massive campaign to paint white conservatives as racists.

Sadly,yhe blakc,community fell for it, and won’t look,at the facts objectively to find out that no, the vast majority of police are not racists, and In fact go above and beyond in most cases to ensure thst there is no racism or profiling. If black folks woild look,objectively at the facts, they woild find out that the left are the ones stirring up racism, that they were the ones who created the kkk, that they are the ones keeping them in poverty and dependent on the gov. Thst they are the ones encouraging black folks to get abortions en mass, etc.

Trump did a lot, much more thst any other president. To actuslly help black communities develop and prosper, but the left suppress thst information because it puts the lie to,the claim that Trump is a racist

I hate to say this (not really), but: Have you noticed how, uh, STUPID the average young person is these days? Sure, there are smart, good kids here and there but a lot of youths cannot read, write, do simple math problems, or do anything but play video games and absorb “content” on the internet like sponges. This “content” in turn indoctrinates, soothes, and misinforms them to the point that they’re effectively victimized by it and turned into non-player characters.

After several generations of the Left’s ownership of colleges and universities, kids who survive high school and go on to college are sealed into the stupidity of communism.

Therefore, it’s the easiest thing in the world to get them, as adults, to parrot the stupidest, most self-defeating crap imaginable with straight faces. Their social media profiles will clam this and that degree and this and that prestigious job, and this and that “worldview” and yet, when you meet them, you find them to be dangerously dumb. I’ve worked for people like that - they make good money, they drive a new car, their office looks like a baroque palace, and they can spew bu11sh1t all day long and sound pretty smart - within certain limitations.

Get them out of their comfort zone and it’s a whole different game.

Like, they can’t function outside a very narrow, predefined set of parameters and they will parrot whatever the TV tells them to parrot.

So, for example, they will call you “racist” and expect for you to defend yourself - which will only make you look like you’re scared of them - and THEN turn right around and make the most outrageously racist statements you’ve ever heard, the kind of thing you yourself would never say because, haha, someone might hear you and you might lose your job, get challenged to a fight, and maybe even get shot. You can see these things happening in your imagination because you still have an imagination and intellect. They can’t. Why argue with them? Reason has lost its grasp on them.

Really, it’s time to stop “owning the libs” and start thinking about survival. Yeah, we get it: These people are hypocrites. They are stupid. They are vicious and angry. They are out of touch with reality.

And they are in charge. Stop trying to figure it out - factor in the leftist indoctrination that for the average kid begins in kindergarten and it makes a lot more sense. Factor yourself and your potential for survival against this huge majority. There’s your work.

Give them “Participation Trophies” for about 20 years.

Raise them on MTV...

Add “RAP “ ‘MUSIC’, which allows filthy lyrics to be spouted day in & day out.

Mix well with drugs.

Demand DEFUNDING of police & sheriffs.

Do NOTHING—ZERO—to stop all the burning/looting/mayhem.

Keep calling violent actions “peaceful protests’.

THEN YOU HAVE A VERY IGNORANT VOTING POPULACE....

ANY section of government is a BUSINESS: Money comes in & money goes out. EVERY penny should be accounted for to the public. Business persons UNDERSTAND that-—politicians do not.

Barry-—Mayor of DC—gets caught on tape with drugs & hookers—and goes to jail—THEN GETS RE-ELECTED !!!!!

Keep electing politicians who cannot run the snack stand at the local Little League game.....DISASTER !!!

Wisconsin Governor-—WHO WAS AN ART TEACHER-—that certainly is NO business background-—cannot do simple math.

Mayor of RENO-—which has about doubled in 10 years-—SHE was an ICE SKATER!!!!!! Perhaps a talented ice skater-—but running a city that large? HELL NO.

Dirty Harry Reid-—was a bagman for the mobs in Las Vegas-—he went to the outlying BROTHELS daily & collected the cash & brought it into the mob in Vegas. He learned early how to fleece the public. He did so to the day he died & his ghost still operates in Nevada politics.

Kamala Harris was no more than a high priced whore who got all her lifts up the political ladder due to her sexual activities —with another grifter-—Willie Brown...

The Clintons are in a class of their own...have been since the early days in Arkansas. AND VINCE FOSTER did not kill himself.

We all know politicians from all over the USA that NEVER should have been making policy—laws—or signing checks.

I fear that this generation of voters is lost-—and the next generation will be severely crippled with “Covid” “VACCINES”,

They all certainly lost a major part of their years of BASIC education with the shutdowns...

Shutdowns which DID expose the crap that the UNION teachers were shoving at the kids,.

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Give them “Participation Trophies” for about 20 years.