The Democrat Party saw race politics as their ticket to one-party rule. They were going to run that play all the way to the end zone, until they turned enough states permanently blue that the GOP could never win another presidency. The race grift was bulletproof.

So they thought.

The Left believed they could do anything, not matter how destructive, no matter how degenerate, no matter how imbecilic, because as long as they spewed the right rhetoric they would never lose the loyalty of blacks and Hispanics.

The grift was simple: keep fooling minorities into believing Democrats care about them and keep telling them Republicans and conservatives are racist. All conservatives, all the time, even the black and brown ones. Yeah, they’re racist too.

And for a long time it worked.

But now, it seems, the jig is up. A recent analysis from The New York Times says Democrats are bleeding voters all over the country and across every race demographic:

Mr. Trump has steadily gained steam across a broad swath of the nation, with swelling support not just in white working-class communities but also in counties with sizable Black and Hispanic populations.

Counties that have become steadily more Republican exist in some of the country’s bluest strongholds, including New York City, Philadelphia and Honolulu. Mr. Trump’s party is still losing in those places, but by significantly less. …

In last year’s election, Republicans gained ground in 193 of the country’s 200 most predominantly Black counties — even as former Vice President Kamala Harris stood to become the first Black female president.

The overall picture is even worse for Democrats:

All told, Mr. Trump has increased the Republican Party’s share of the presidential vote in each election he’s been on the ballot in close to half the counties in America — 1,433 in all — according to an analysis by The New York Times.

It is a staggering political achievement, especially considering that Mr. Trump was defeated in the second of those three races, in 2020.

By contrast, Democrats have steadily expanded their vote share in those three elections in only 57 of the nation’s 3,100-plus counties.

(It’s not that staggering of an achievement when you know he legitimately won all three elections.)

The article cites a Democrat pollster who admits the goal, all along, had been to win the political monopoly game by owning all the non-white demographics. Ben Tulchin told the Times that “For years, the belief was Democrats have had demographic destiny on our side. Now, the inverse is true.”

It turns out that pushing policies that make people poorer is not a winning strategy, no matter how much propaganda you pump out saying the opposite: “The median American household income is around $80,000. Places with median incomes lower than that account for 95 percent of counties voting steadily more Republican, but only 25 percent of counties turning steadily more Democratic.” The Left frames this as a “diploma dilemma”; Republicans are enlarging their tent because there are more stupid people, they tell themselves. But who’s the dunce here—the overeducated and detached party elites, or the average person who see through their lies and collective sociopathy?

Not to brag, but I called this out years ago. I said the Democrats were mistaken in believing nonwhites would always be there for them. But my reason wasn’t based on economics, it was based on the Left’s downward spiral into evermore degeneracy. Hispanic and black cultures are generally socially conservative, more so than Western white culture. Leftist whites, and liberal women in general, are the largest purveyors of depravity. So when the Left completely lost it with the trans movement, that was it. It was too much. Blacks and Hispanics already looked down on homosexuality. The trans rage overreached.

Data indicating the trans craziness played a major reason voters chose Trump is pervasive. The Trump camp had it, for sure. In some cases, Trump’s people didn’t even create ads. They simply ran clips of Madam VP Karmella Harris talking crazy:

This is great news. It shows that the Left’s never ending quest for power is not a fait accompli. It indicates the political trajectory of this country may actually have a chance of being determined by issues and not inherent attributes. It also signals that there are still plenty of people in America with common sense. And it means that, at some point, if this trajectory becomes undeniable, the Democrat party will either remake itself to a less crazy one—or it will perish.

I prefer that latter of the options. I prefer the party disappears and a new political landscape emerges in which the current MAGA coalition is considered center left while an emerging Constitutional constituency, uncompromising purists who want to restore the Founder’s original vision of limited government, becomes the new right-wingers.

https://behindtheheadlines.substack.com/p/the-left-was-going-to-ride-the-race