1/29/2018 - Scott Morefield Townhall.com
On Friday, conservative
actor James Woods let America know exactly what “#DACA is about” in one
devastating tweet that included a
meme depicting Senate Minority Schoolmarm Chuck Schumer ‘saying,’ “It’s very
simple to understand actually – If Americans won’t vote for Democrats, then
we’ll import people who will.”
The tweet has since gone viral, and for good reason since it
speaks to the heart of the immigration debate going on in America. Granted,
even “Cryin’ Chuck” wouldn’t be so obvious as to say those exact words, but
that doesn’t mean he and his fellow liberals aren’t thinking them. Nor does it
mean the concept isn’t driving everything they do when it comes to shaping America’s
immigration policy. It’s not often that one can speak of another’s motives with
pure and unflinching certainty, but if there ever were such a time, determining
liberal motives on immigration is indeed one of those rare cases.
In an article entitled
“A Permanent Democratic Majority” penned after the Obama wave election of 2008,
Salon’s Alex Koppelman wrote:
“The long-promised
Latino realignment may have become reality. Coveted by Karl Rove, courted by
George W. Bush, the fastest-growing sector of the American electorate stampeded
toward the Democrats this November. New Mexico is only the most striking symbol
of a nationwide trend that helped flip as many as seven states and 85 electoral
votes into Obama's column. Latinos formed their largest share ever of the
national electorate, 9 percent, and their numbers are poised to increase in
every election to come. They also voted by their largest margin ever for the
Democrats, 67 to 31 percent. If that pattern continues, the GOP is doomed to 40
years of wandering in a desert.”
Koppelman also noted
that Salon’s experts “credited the Hispanic vote with delivering Colorado and
Nevada to Obama.”
Thankfully, an Obama
backlash that finally convinced red state voters to actually stop sending
Democratic lawmakers to Congress as well Donald Trump’s ability to pick up
three key Rust Belt states and eke out a victory in 2016 prevented that
predicted ‘desert wandering’ from transpiring quite as expected. But that
doesn’t mean Democrats aren’t playing the long game, nor does it mean they
won’t eventually win it.
Consider:
From 9 percent of the
2008 election, Hispanics made up 10 percent of
America’s electorate in 2012 and 11 percent in 2016. That number will rise
dramatically if 2-3 million DACA recipients are granted citizenship.
With all his pandering,
George W. Bush only managed to win around
40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, and “Amnesty” John McCain did ten
points worse four years later. Generally, around two-thirds of Hispanics will
vote Democratic in any given election.
This trend is magnified
in the West, where Hispanics comprise a greater percentage of the population.
Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, all states George W. Bush carried in 2004,
haven’t so much as leaned Republican since then.
For the first time in
decades, Republicans picked up less than 50 percent of Arizona voters in 2016,
only winning the state by less than four percentage points. In an article about
the Hispanic voting bloc in the west penned before 2016’s election, the
Colorado Independent predicted that
Arizona could become a “battleground state” in 12 years.
It’ll likely be much
sooner than that.
Texas, a state George
W. Bush carried by 61.1 percent, was won by Trump by a relatively razor thin
margin of 52.2 percent. Most pundits seem to agree that it’s only a matter of
time before Texas turns blue.
Texas...
Let that sink in.
And do we really need
to go into what the hell has happened to California?
No matter how you slice
the data, anyone who studies these issues at any depth will agree that: 1.)
Hispanics comprise an ever-growing share of the U.S. electorate, 2.) Hispanics
tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, and 3.) Hispanics are a key reason
for many states’ shift from red to blue in national elections.
This is not to say
Republicans shouldn’t try to win as many Hispanic voters as possible, as long
as they do so using real, common-sense, conservative arguments and not
political pandering. Nor is it to in any way disparage Hispanic voters who vote
Republican (and often quite heroically, I might add, given today’s
political climate) or even the Democrat-leaning majority of Hispanics. It’s
their right, of course, to vote how they choose. However, it’s also America’s
right to allow in and grant citizenship to whom it will.
There was once a time
when Democrats stood for ordinary, blue-collar Americans. That time is long
past, and has since been replaced by standing for everyone in the rest of the
(Third) world, so long as they’re willing to come here and vote for their Big
Government policies.
Victor Davis Hanson
puts the shift at around 2010, writing, “At that
point, around 2010 or so, the old Democratic and progressive admonitions about
illegal immigration cutting the wages of the poor, impeding unionization, and
siphoning away social welfare entitlements from the citizen poor were finally
and completely jettisoned (along with the language once used by Jimmy Carter
and the Clintons).”
Granted, as Democrats
continue to garner an ever-declining percentage of America’s native-born
voters, can anyone really blame them for trying to import, legalize, and
naturalize as many people as possible from groups that historically vote for
Big Government?
Maybe not, but it
doesn’t mean Republicans should allow them to get away with it.
“Fredocons” (thank you,
Kurt Schlichter) like
Jeff Flake, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Karl Rove who think the GOP can
somehow win a majority of Hispanics by adopting a liberal immigration policy
should consider the words of the indefatigable
Heather McDonald: “It is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond
between Hispanics and the Democratic party, but the core Democratic principles
of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy,
and progressive taxation.”
In other words, in
order to win a majority of Hispanics, Republicans would have to, well, become
Democrats!
As President Trump and Republicans in Congress negotiate a deal on the children brought to America by their illegal immigrant parents, they should be reminded that, by granting millions of Democratic-leaning voters a path to citizenship in this country, they could very well be signing their own political death warrants.
As President Trump and Republicans in Congress negotiate a deal on the children brought to America by their illegal immigrant parents, they should be reminded that, by granting millions of Democratic-leaning voters a path to citizenship in this country, they could very well be signing their own political death warrants.
And in the process,
creating a “permanent Democratic majority”
that will eventually bring America to its knees.
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