Joe Biden's decision not to seek the Democratic nomination leaves the way much clearer for Hillary Clinton, more is the pity.
It looks increasingly like a battle between her and Donald Trump, effectively guaranteeing that the next President of the United States will be a white Protestant.
Thus has what was once that effortlessly dominant demographic come back from the brink. For 2016 was, and still is, its last shot at even so much as a chance of the White House.
There is already, for example, no Protestant on the Supreme Court. If a white Protestant President were not elected next year, then none would ever be elected again. Anything else that you cared to imagine. But not that.
In fact, assuming two terms for next year's successful candidate, then it would still be foolish to bet on a white Protestant President at any time after 2024.
In fact, assuming two terms for next year's successful candidate, then it would still be foolish to bet on a white Protestant President at any time after 2024.
It's bizarre considering the Democratic Party has effectively become, as Pat Buchanan said, the party of ethnic minorities. Nobody else votes for it.
ReplyDeletePEW Research Centre notes: ""The GOP’s advantage widens to 21 points among white men who have not completed college (54%-33%) and white southerners (55%-34%). But the Democrats hold an 80%-11% advantage among blacks, lead by close to three-to-one among Asian Americans (65%-23%) and by more than two-to-one among Hispanics (56%-26%).""
That's why the Democrats love mass immigration so much-it has spent the entire Obama Presidency importing their future voters.
Buchanan and almost every other American paleocon that I have ever known would have, and did, count as a member of an immigrant ethnic minority well into the twentieth century.
DeleteLesson in how to miss the point by David Lindsay.
ReplyDeletePEW Research Centre concurs with Buchanan's analysis that the Hispanics are the fastest growing voter bloc in America and will tip the balance firmly in favour of the Democrats.
Mass third world migration from Central America is literally a Democratic Party project.
Soon, Spanish will be the official language in many Southern states.
You are very behind the times with that one. "Buchanan's analysis," to which you refer, is itself rather old now.
DeleteI remember thinking in my undergraduate days that Spanish would go the way of German in America, and for much the same reasons. That is now happening.
But the point of this post still stands: if the white Protestants do not win next year, then they never will again.
That is not, or at least not exclusively or primarily, about Hispanic immigration. It is about their own decline.
The same is true of the Republican Party. It is dying, of course. But by its own hand.