The Patriot Post® · DNC Primaries, Dementia, and Demographics

Precious few Americans, not even Democrats, want Joe Biden to run for reelection. Mark Alexander boldly predicts that he won’t. The cognitively challenged president would, after all, be 86 at the end of a second term. So why are Democrat power brokers still propping him up?

“Are you with me?” Biden asked attendees of the Democratic National Committee’s Winter Meeting in Philadelphia Friday. His question was answered with chants of “four more years!”

Never mind approval numbers in the same basement he campaigned from in 2020. Forget the scandal over his careless handling of classified documents. Pay no attention to that ChiCom balloon traversing the U.S.. Biden-Harris ‘24 has the green light, and the DNC even approved rearranging the slate of state primaries to make it happen.

Biden was very nearly left for dead in the 2020 primary field after disastrous results in Iowa and New Hampshire. South Carolina saved Biden’s bacon, so, as a reward, Biden and his DNC upended 50 years of tradition and chose the Palmetto State to lead the field, followed by New Hampshire, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, and then Super Tuesday. Essentially, the DNC is helping Biden avoid early stumbles in states where he’s not popular.

That New Hampshire retained its early placement is interesting given that Iowa was kicked to the curb as punishment for not choosing Biden in its disastrous 2020 caucuses. Also not coincidentally, Iowa no longer sends a single Democrat to either chamber of Congress.

The Granite State has until June 3 to change its state law requiring first-primary status or face penalties such as limits on delegate numbers. The Peach State must also approve the change, though given that Georgia is run by Republicans with little inclination to help Democrats who suddenly love the state they called Jim Crow country five minutes ago, that change may not happen.

In short, what is cast as a “major shakeup” of the primary order amounts to changing which state leads, though the DNC says a review will now happen every four years. Meanwhile, Republicans are playing it conservative and changing nothing.

The calendar shift is also not what’s most interesting about happenings in the Democrat Party.

What is interesting is what the change reflects — a shift toward empowering black and union voters in the South ahead of whites in the Midwest. That’s to be expected given the demographic shifts in the Democrat Party.

According to a new report from the Manhattan Institute, “The Democratic Party will likely become a majority-minority party relatively soon, but one that is still largely and disproportionately steered by liberal college-educated whites.”

Put another way, guilty, rich whites are still telling minorities what to do. It’s remarkable that so much “progress” has left Democrats roughly where they were in 1850.

So, how does this all tie together?

Joe Biden is nothing if not a Party Man. That’s why his administration has governed so radically left — because that’s where Democrats have “progressed” to. For the sake of appearances until Biden can ride off into the sunset because of health concerns or something, Democrats have to unify behind him. The way to do that is to bolster his chances in the places he performed strongest.

Ironically, that also creates two points of demographic tension. On the one hand, the college-indoctrinated whites who run the Democrat Party are driving away the working-class and rural whites who once made up the base of Scranton Joe’s party. In 2016, Donald Trump solidified a decades-long trend of more of those whites coming to the GOP tent, where they’re finding themselves far more at home.

On the other hand, non-white voters tend to be more culturally conservative — or at least less liberal — than their white party overlords. If the denizens of clown world keep promoting cultural insanity as normal, minority voters may also increasingly find a home in the GOP. The Manhattan Institute’s Zach Goldberg says minorities aren’t “destined to abandon the Democratic Party and vote for Republican candidates en masse anytime soon,” but trend lines and slight shifts matter.

The bad news is that Basement Biden won in 2020 by pretending to be the normal guy. Whether a man clearly suffering from dementia actually runs or not in 2024, and regardless of what state leads the primary field, Democrats and their Leftmedia propagandists will continue to act as if they care for the little guy (student loan forgiveness, anyone?) while casting Republicans as bigots and racists. We may see through the smoke and mirrors, but unless we convince more of our family, friends, and neighbors of the truth, '24 may see more of the same.