The Democrats Have a Race Problem

[mystery-ak]

 The Democrats Have a Race Problem
by Robert Stacy McCain
March 12, 2019, 12:50 AM

More than a decade ago, when Karl Rove and other “center-right” Republican Party strategists were talking endlessly about the need for GOP “outreach” to Hispanic voters, Steve Sailer examined the same electoral data and reached quite a contrary conclusion. The weakness of Republicans — exposed by the razor-thin margins of George W. Bush’s elections in 2000 and 2004 — was not due to their lack of support among minority voters, Sailer argued, but rather that the GOP was failing to maximize its share of the white vote. Contradicting the conventional wisdom within the Republican establishment, Sailer’s argument attracted little attention from the mainstream media until after Donald Trump stunned the nation with his upset victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

How had Trump, despite all his flaws and disadvantages, managed not only to capture the Republican nomination against a field of formidable rivals, but also to defeat Clinton in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan that had not been carried by a GOP presidential candidate since 1988? Suddenly, Steve Sailer was hailed as a prophet. Sailer had “seemed to exercise a kind of subliminal influence across much of the right,” Michael Brendan Dougherty declared in July 2016, after Trump locked up the Republican nomination, and Michael Barone cited Sailer’s ideas in a December 2016 analysis of the election. In April 2017, New York magazine called Sailer “The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right.”

Whether or not President Trump and his advisors have consciously acted on the “Sailer Strategy,” the results have been almost exactly what any student of Sailer’s work might have predicted. And the behavior of Democrats in recent months may foreshadow another Trump victory in 2020. Quite simply, Democrats have doubled down on their left-wing identity-politics message and, in the process, further alienated the kind of white voters who helped Trump beat Hillary in 2016.

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https://spectator.org/the-democrats-have-a-race-problem/

[goatprairie]

Much of Sailor's work is published in alt-right forums/mags. He is highly critical of efforts to integrate non-whites, especially blacks, into mainstream American life.
He is no  fan of the Republican Party. While not a separatist like many considered on the far-right, he is nevertheless skeptical of efforts to keep the country together as one common culture.
While not an overt anti-Semite, he agrees with people like Ihlan Omar that American Jews have too much influence  and too much allegiance to Israel.

[TomSea]

Much of Sailor's work is published in alt-right forums/mags. He is highly critical of efforts to integrate non-whites, especially blacks, into mainstream American life.
He is no  fan of the Republican Party. While not a separatist like many considered on the far-right, he is nevertheless skeptical of efforts to keep the country together as one common culture.
While not an overt anti-Semite, he agrees with people like Ihlan Omar that American Jews have too much influence  and too much allegiance to Israel.

Thanks, I'm sure most of us did not have much of an idea who this "Sailer" was.

[goatprairie]

Thanks, I'm sure most of us did not have much of an idea who this "Sailer" was.

Yes, Sailer with an er.  Thanks for the correction.
He's published from time to time in TakiMag which is definitely not friendly with Republican regulars.
Taki, himself, hates Israel, but many of the regular columnists do not, although they will criticize Jews or Israel from time to time. One regular columnist is a Jew, and he doesn't hate Israel.

[Fishrrman]

Title (and premise):
"The Democrats Have a Race Problem..."

No they don't.
The democrat-communists have been usin' race to their advantage for decades.
And doing very well because of it.

It's the Republicans who "have the problem".
They could "use race" also, to their advantage.
But, stupid as always -- they don't.

Addendum:
I wrote the above before I read the excerpt. But Sailer is right.
Look at the region of the USA in which whites essentially "vote as a bloc" -- the South.
THAT'S why the Republicans have been successful there for quite a while.

All that would be needed is to bring in about 5-7% more whites in "the purple states", and the Pubbies would do much better.

As for the "deep blue New Slavery states", furgeddaboutit.
Too many whites in them are simply lost and unrecoverable.
Like the majority of liberal Jews, they've drunk the leftist-communist Kool Aid and we're never going to reach 'em.