The only time the media-political left have stopped bellowing at us that the “Great Replacement” is a “Right Wing Nut Job” conspiracy theory, is when they were hooting about what a great success it was.
For years, Democrat strategists and left-leaning legacy media (meaning: nearly all of them) openly boasted that their immigration “reforms” had “resulted in a wave of immigration from the Third World that should shift the nation in a more liberal direction within a generation.” It would be remembered as the greatest gift to the Democratic Party, Democrat consultant Patrick Reddy wrote in 1998. Other Democrat consultants bragged about “The Emerging Democratic Majority” of blacks, Hispanics and Asians that guaranteed the end of white middle-America’s dominance.
As recently as 2019, Democrat pollster Stanley Greenberg chortled that “our country is hurtling toward a New America that is ever more racially and culturally diverse … more immigrant and foreign born.” RIP GOP, he sneered.
On MSNBC, the likes of Joy Ann Reid leftsplained that “old white men” were on the endangered species list. “In about 40 years, half the country will be black or brown,” hooted “anti-racism academic” Tim Wise.
Maybe so — but that doesn’t appear to be working out quite the way they supposed.
Fourteen years and several election losses later, the dream of demographic destiny has crashed down around them.
That’s them “uppity” brown folks for you: let them into your country and they start thinking they can vote any way they please. And increasingly, the way they please is not pleasing to the left.
According to an NBC News/Telemundo poll, 54% of Latino voters want a Democratic-led Congress to 33% who want a Republican-run Congress.
Good news for the Democrats, right? Not as a long-term trend. The Democrats’ lead has halved over the last decade. It’s not a one-off anomaly, either: it’s been a steady red shift of the Hispanic vote.
That effect can best be seen in Nevada, a Democrat-leaning swing state for the past several elections. Nevada has the fifth-highest share of Hispanic residents of any state. A recent poll now shows Republicans leading in the races for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and U.S. senator. Former Attorney General Adam Laxalt, the GOP Senate nominee, led in every poll taken in the month of September.
Democrats have also been boasting that they would flip solidly Republican Texas, the second-most Hispanic state.
Yet somehow, Republicans maintain steady control of the state. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hasn’t trailed in any poll this year to perennially overhyped Democrat Beto O’Rourke. While Texas has moved toward Democrats at a glacial pace (if at all), Florida (the sixth-most Hispanic state) has become more Republican in the last several years.
It’s not just the brown folks, either. The black folks are increasingly going off the Democrat plantation. In small numbers, it is true, but fast-growing.
It is clear that the Democratic Party’s arrogance about demographics has given way to reality. In the 14 years since the Democratic Party’s dominant 2008 elections, Republicans have held the House and Senate for six years (thanks to dominant performances in 2010 and 2014) and they are on track to take back one or both chambers after only narrow losses in 2020.
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For a party that spends so much time screeching about imaginary “racism”, the Democrats are strangely blind to their own, bigoted assumption that minority voters somehow “belong” to them.
And we thought Democrats had already been taught a lesson about thinking they had a right to own people of colour.
