A more plausible strategy is for the GOP to mobilize a higher white turnout and get a greater share of the white vote, while diluting minority voting through a divide and conquer strategy emphasizing issues that spotlight minorities’ conflicting interests.
By Steve Sailer
As Peter Brimelow and Edwin S. Rubenstein pointed out in their 1997 National Review cover story Electing a New People, the demographic changes ushered in by the 1965 Immigration Act and the simultaneous collapse of immigration controls portend major trouble for the Republican Party (if anyone cares) and, more seriously, for America.
I will be writing a number of VDARE.COM columns on this fundamental topic in coming weeks.
First, though, Republicans/ Americans need to grasp that the conventional wisdom that they must never speak out on demography—race and ethnicity—was invented by their enemies to defeat them.
John McCain, for instance, followed the Main Stream Media’s advice on these topics slavishly. How’d that work out for him? Conversely, the decline in Barack Obama’s political fortunes over the last three months has been the result of the President’s reflexive reactions undermining David Axelrod’s carefully-constructed campaign image of him as the post-racial transcender. (I deconstructed this myth in my America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s “Story Of Race And Inheritance”)
Obama chose to interject race back into politics—first by his nomination of Affirmative Action beneficiary Sonia Sotomayor of Ricci case notoriety; then by his obviously heartfelt but disastrous intervention in the ludicrous Skip Gates affair, and finally by his announcement in Guadalajara of his timetable for illegal immigrant amnesty.
Obama shot himself in the foot by raising the fundamental question of all politics—Whose side are you on?—just as he was asking voters to trust him on the infinitely complex health bill.
Moral: a key for the Republicans is to get Obama, and the Democrats in general, talking about race and ethnicity at every opportunity.
Like we do at VDARE.COM!
OK, now I’ll make my first modest proposal for dealing with demographic doom:
Let’s abolish the Hispanics!