The Patriot Post® · Non-Whites Are Ditching the Dems

There’s a movement of non-whites toward the Republican Party. How big is that shift and how long it’ll last are unknowable. But it’s there, and it bodes well for Republican prospects this November.

The numbers from a recent Gallup survey bear this out. Just four years ago, in 2020, an overwhelming 77% of blacks said they considered themselves Democrats, compared to just 11% who said they were Republican. That margin has shifted to 66% Democrat and 19% Republican today. Among Latinos, in 2020, 57% said they were Democrats compared to 29% who said they were Republican. Now, just 47% of Latinos consider themselves Democrats, and the Republican number has risen to 35%.

These numbers are frightening to professional Democrats, but non-whites have a host of reasons for moving rightward. First and foremost, there’s the appearance test, which Joe Biden fails miserably. He looks unrecoverably old and frail and incompetent. Then there’s the economic test, for which Bidenomics and Bidenflation are the grim hallmarks. Then there are the ruinous policies — the open border, the nine million illegals, the rapists and murderers and drug traffickers and human traffickers, the loss of downscale jobs and reduced wages for downscale workers, the reduced availability of thin-stretched social services, and the occasional closing of inner-city schools to house these illegals. Then there’s the soft-on-crime approach that’s rendering our big, minority-dominated cities unlivable. And there’s Biden’s war on fossil fuels, which increases energy costs and hurts both businesses and average Americans. And then there’s Big Government, which violates our bodily autonomy with vaccine mandates and restricts our freedom of choice with electric vehicle mandates.

We could go on. But these matters are mostly color-blind, except those that are color-focused.

As a Washington Examiner editorial put it: “What Bidenonmics has delivered to minority voters are the highest food prices in 30 years, unaffordable rents, let alone mortgages, and record-high credit card debt. Biden’s wealthy white college-educated voters may be sitting pretty in expensive homes with fat 401ks, but the reality of Bidenomics is much bleaker for the working class.”

As for the shifts, the most interesting of all of them is, to us, the black vote. This is because Hispanics, who tend to be socially conservative, have, in recent election cycles, already begun moving rightward. Blacks, however, have historically been the most stubbornly entrenched Democrat voting bloc, and they’ve only now shown signs of seriously questioning that allegiance.

Last month, Donald Trump took a lot of heat from the plantation Left for having observed that black Americans seem to identify with him. “A lot of people said that that’s why the black people like me,” said Trump, “because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against.”

Team Biden’s black media director, Jasmine Harris — yes, the Biden campaign has a “black media director” — dutifully called Trump an “anti-Black tyrant” and “the proud poster boy for modern racism.”

And yet, in a classic case of politics making strange bedfellows, ESPN’s cool, loud-mouthed, hip-hopping lefty, Stephen A. Smith, took to the air recently to extoll the virtues of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by an older white guy, Daniel Henninger. The piece, titled “The High Price of Democrats’ Anti-Trump Lawfare,” begins as follows: “The newest buzzword in our politics is lawfare, or using the legal system as a weapon against a political opponent. It sits before us now as a spectacle of political gluttony. How many lawsuits, court motions and judgments against Donald Trump can the Democratic Party chow down? More disturbing is the high price the American system may pay for this excess.”

“Let me tell you something,” said Smith, “I completely agree with Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal.” But Henninger was just the warm-up act. Smith really wanted to talk about Donald Trump.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” Smith said, “there’s so much to get into. I’m not going to do it. I’m going to simply say this: Trump is kicking the Democrats’ you-know-what. Ninety-one charges. Four indictments, 91 counts against him. … We’re still waiting for the guilty verdict. We’re still waiting for him to be incarcerated. We’re still waiting for him to be seen in zebra stripes. You can’t touch him. And now, he’s throwing this elbow. He said, ‘Yo, why'n'cha come beat me? Stop engaging in lawfare and using the legal system to push your political agenda. Come beat me.’”

Smith closed his segment by asking the question that has Democrat strategists up late at night and legions of Zuckerbucks-funded ballot-box stuffers on standby in the big cities of the swing states: “At least 74 million people, based on the numbers stemming from the 2020 election, are gonna side with him,” Smith said. “What about the 81-plus million that once sided with Biden? You sure they’re gonna show up? To help him beat Trump? With the way things are in the streets of America right now? I don’t know. I don’t know.”

To be sure, no one knows. A party’s faithful tend to find their way home by Election Day Season, but this seems different. Snoop, Fifty Cent, and now a younger rapper named Kodak Black are all showing interest in the throat-punching, take-no-prisoners billionaire. Asked if he was voting for Trump this year, Black said: “Of course. We should have Donald Trump for like 20 years.”

We hate to break it to Kodak, but there’s this thing called the 22nd Amendment that precludes a 20-year term. Still, we like the way he thinks.