“Today, the Democratic Party may be the most ruthlessly organized and efficient political entity in the world,” the Wall Street Journal‘s Editor-at-Large Gerard Baker wrote. “We can denounce the activism and deplore the outcome, but we can only marvel at the political efficiency with which it has been achieved.”
The Democratic consolidation is the product of ideological, economic and cultural forces. The Left seized the commanding high ground of the entertainment industry and the educational system to cultivate generations that were culturally primed to accept its ideas.
The current state of affairs that Baker bemoans, in which Democrats have captured white college graduates and Republicans now hold the working class, were triumphs of culture over economic interest. The Left did not win a debate of ideas, it formed a tribe of elites. Behind the violence, the radicalism and the posturing are the daughters of CEOs and the Ivy League.
The Democrats became the party of elites. That elitism has been thinly disguised by an ideological identity politics coalition of white elites and minority activists.
Democrats as a party retain the rigidly organized machine that Baker describes as an “impressive willingness to band together” so that “in 2009 and 2010 many of them voted for ObamaCare well aware that it could cost them their political futures. Like kamikaze pilots cheerfully climbing up into their Zero fighters at dawn, they knew they had an obligation larger than their own survival, a duty that superseded their doubts.” That was because they knew that they owed their allegiance and their careers not to their voters, but to the movement.
Dissent has virtually vanished among the members of the party, and its allied organizations, including nonprofits and the media, but there are signs that the coalition is crumbling.
The Latino voters who were supposed to turn Texas and Florida blue have been acting like a swing constituency. In Florida, DeSantis even won the Puerto Rican vote that had been engineered to transform the state. In New York, Lee Zeldin’s close showing and the GOP’s House Majority was powered by Asian and Orthodox Jewish voters.
A New York Times article described how “Democrats are trying to determine how they can stem — and, if possible, reverse — the growing tide of Asian American voters drifting away from the party.”
The two policies that are alienating Asians, legalizing crime and dismantling educational standards, are championed by the black politicians who form the core of the Democrat minority bloc.
“Why should I support Democrats who discriminate against me? We see Democrats are working for the interest of African Americans and Latino communities against Asian communities,” one Asian voter told the paper.
State Senator John Liu, a career leftist, expressed the same idea cloaked in woke jargon. “Many of the social justice issues in this country are still viewed from a Black and white lens, and Asian Americans are simply undetected by that lens and therefore feel completely marginalized.”
The Democrats are even experiencing some turbulence among black male voters and gay voters who are, in small part, becoming more comfortable voting Republican.
Like the Asian and Orthodox Jewish vote in New York City, this has more to do with the inherent instability of the Democrat coalition than a newfound Republican genius for minority outreach.
The ‘rainbow coalition’ and the majority-minority vision for a takeover was built on denying the tensions between different groups. Intersectionality, meant to create a victimhood hierarchy, instead further alienated different members of the coalition with competing demands.
The coalition has become a house of cards that is always threatening to overturn.
When LGBTQ activists demand sexualized material in schools, Muslim activists protest at school board meetings. Black Lives Matter rioters demand an end to police and prisons, and Asian voters decamp. Transgender activists call gay men and lesbians transphobes and they head for the door. White woke elites demand lockdowns, Latinos shrug and vote them out.
A more accurate view of the Democrats is that they are rigidly organized at the top, but coming apart at the bottom. They have persevered by controlling the narrative, introducing distractions and juggling different demographics and causes to goose turnout their way.
But this game of political Jenga can’t last forever. A simultaneous defection by two minority groups in the wrong areas of the country or by one group and white college voters would be systemically devastating to the viability of the Democrats as a national political party.
The Moneyball dictatorship backed by Big Data, ballot harvesting, media propaganda and innumerable other tactics is a highly sophisticated operation that has so thoroughly corrupted the electoral system into an oligarchy that it has become indistinguishable from a tyranny.
Every effort is made to prevent voters from understanding that. And the vast majority don’t have an inkling as to how the machine works. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not increasingly aware that the Democrats have become the party of wealthy and powerful elites.
The white working class was the first to realize it. The machine blamed their defection on racism using Obama as its human shield. But the most salient fact about Obama was not that he was black, it was that he was the child of wealthy radicals whose worldview had been shaped, despite his memoirs, by his time in the Ivy League and the institutional elite Left. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, fellow members of that same set, have been met with shrugs by the country.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Instead of reclaiming the white working class, his original function on the Obama ticket, Joe Biden has overseen the growing gap between the elites and the working class. His signature policies like electric car subsidies or student loan debt dismissal pander to the Obama class.
Worse still, the party suffered record Latino and Asian defections as it focused on black voters.
“Ruthless organization” and the ideological consolidation that governs the Democrats has its limits. The Left got this far because it understood that the objective of the battles was to win a war. Now it is taking pride in surviving battles even as its ability to win the war is coming into question. The growing alienation of minorities may have had only a limited impact in 2020 and 2020, but it’s an existential threat to the long-term survival of the Democratic Party.
If this were the result of a Republican strategy, then the Democrats could counter it, but Republican outreach to minorities, outside of New York, Florida and Texas has been weak. The general state of minority outreach lacks resources, organization on the ground and sustained commitment, while communicating to minority voters in the crudest possible cliches.
The real problem is that the Democrat coalition carries the seeds of its own destruction.
The rigid ideological consolidation at the top has paved the way for a radical agenda that may seem logically streamlined on Capitol Hill, CNN or at the Aspen Institute, but looks like an endless civil war down at the bottom. And what Democrats are discovering is that most minority voters, unlike black people and secular Jews, are not especially committed to them.
They aren’t yellow dog Democrats. They vote that way for transactional reasons.
The majority-minority strategy is built on the myth that members of minority groups identify as Democrats on a cultural level. The evidence is ample that the majority of them do not.
The cultural cult that has usurped a historic national party boasts mostly white upper class members. These are the same people who can decide to deplatform you, cut up your credit cards or fire you, but they still wield far less power than those of most oligarchies. In their echo chambers, they have overestimated their strengths and ignored their systemic weaknesses.
And that has always been true of the Left.
Like all radical ideologies, the Left is unsustainable. It has a great aptitude for developing belief systems, spreading ideas, converting new members, seizing power and maximizing control. All of that is well underway in America. But its great strength of ideological convictions is also its fatal flaw. Like most fanatics, it cannot believe anything other than that it is destined to win because it is on the right side of history. It does not understand that power, no matter how it is monopolized and guarded, is ultimately cyclical and that people eventually tire of their rulers.
Even if the Republicans never defeat the Democrats, the Left is paving the way for its defeat.
Algorithmic Analyst says
“Dissent has virtually vanished among the members of the party”
Excellent point. Seen it up close.
David Mu says
A coalition is always an weakness waiting to fall apart. This current coalition in the Democratic Party is especially likely to fall apart, because once the raid is done – each group now believes it is the most entitled to lion share of the spoils. Outside of the clear evidence of the elite influence (for they own benefit) of the coalition, the coalition are filled with groups that have little in common when the warring is done. So yes – the left is paving its own end. It remains only to know just how much is left from it raid.
ONew Irene says
I hope you are right, because the path we are on in violence and civil war.
David Mu says
Well, the path ends = but the way to it is full of the promise of violence.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Excellent point David.
John Anderson says
“It does not understand that power, no matter how it is monopolized and guarded, is ultimately cyclical and that people eventually tire of their rulers.”
But when people don’t vote for Democrats, Democrats can always steal elections. Do you really believe 81 million people voted for corrupt and demented Joe Biden, who campaigned from his basement? Are the people tired of their rulers in countries like Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran? Are elections in the US becoming like in those countries?
Kynarion Hellenis says
I agree with you. I want desperately to have hope, and this article gives it, but relies upon some shaky presuppositions. Fair elections is one of them. Republican opposition is another.
Election cheating is increasing and becoming more brazen. Republican opposition has been pro forma throughout my lifetime and the reality of a uni-party of “republocrats” seems stronger every day.
Daniel Greenfield says
They can steal elections if the elections are already close.
Why do you think they needed pandemic lockdowns and BLM riots?
People act as if the Democrats can just add as many votes as they want to. They need the election to be contested and they need a situation that taints it and turns out their base.
John Anderson says
I believe there is plenty of evidence of massive and systemic fraud during the 2020 US Presidential Election. In 2020, Trump got 75 million votes, which was more votes for President than anyone in US history. Obama got 68 million in 2008 and 65 million in 2012. Hillary got 60 million in 2016, if you include the dead people. But we are to believe that demented Joe outperformed Obama and Hillary by tens of millions of votes. I believe Trump actually won in 2020 by a landslide and Biden got less than 60 million votes. Yes, I know who cares what I believe. My point is as the country is “fundamentally transformed” Democrats will become more brazen to do whatever is necessary to steal elections. Who is going to stop the Democrats from stealing elections, the FBI, the DOJ, the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell or other RINOS?
Lastly, who benefits if the US is “fundamentally transformed”, that is destroyed, and the US dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency? Would Xi of China become even more powerful if the yuan replaced the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Besides China, the Democrats led by Obama also want to see the demise of America.
However, there is a difference between the actions of China and Obama. Historically, China does what it does which is typical of nations. But Obama does what he does which is typical of traitors.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Again, I agree with your assessment of the situation. The evidence clearly points to a massive landslide by Trump in 2020, and the election was subverted.
I know of not a single case that was allowed to be heard on the merits. Every lawsuit was dismissed upon issues like “standing” prior to the presentation of any evidence. How could this not be intentional?
Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules film did a great job of exposing tactics.
John Anderson says
Yes, Dinesh D’Souza’s film “2000 Mules” should have led to a DOJ and FBI investigations, let alone indictments, trials, and prison sentences if the country was not controlled by a government of criminals. However, our Federal Government, courts, military, media, and educational institutions are controlled by criminals, liars, and traitors. And the worse may be yet to come.
For example, worse would be a collapse of the economy and civil unrest. Worse would be if citizens are routinely arrested, held without trial and then made to plead guilty to false charges, that is the January 6 hoax replicated every day of the year to any patriot who stands up to this tyranny. Worse would be another intentional biological weapons attack on the US more severe than COVID. Worse would be an EMP attack on our electrical grid, which experts say could lead to a 90% mortality of every American within 1 year.
ONew Irene says
Daniel, you give us hope. The only thing that can change things quickly and for sure is a Night of the Long Knives eliminating around 200 of these “efficient and effective” Marxist thugs. It could maybe keep the country into going into a full blown civil war with millions getting killed.
I’m glad the Asians are wising up. After the 2012 election that
Obama won, (and I was surprised by that), I read election result demographics in the NYTimes showing 96% of blacks, 80% of Jews, and 75% of Asians voting for him. I asked my Chinese-Vietnamese manicurist why in the world would Asians vote for Obama who is a white-hating communist. She said, without a moments hesitation, “oh, Asians have businesses and they hide their cash and they get money from the “gobernment.”” There you have it.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Which is par for the course in their countries of origin.
We need to return to the Judeo-Christian principles that provide the foundations for justice, happiness and prosperity.
THX 1138 says
Judeo-Christianity prepared the ground for Marxism. What Marx essentially did was secularize Judeo-Christianity and dress it up in pseudo-scientific gibberish. It is the Judeo-Christians on the Left, not on the Right, who have the logical and consistent interpretation of their religion. Pope Francis is perfectly correct when he said,
“I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the center of the Gospel,” he said, citing Biblical passages about the need to help the poor, the sick and the needy.
“Communists say that all this is communism. Sure, twenty centuries later. So when they speak, one can say to them: ‘but then you are Christian’,” he said, laughing.”
Kevin N says
Sorry, not true … the left wants one and ONLY one religion banished from the town square, and that is Christianity … They’re okay with everything else … The left is comprised of secular marxists, not Christians … The Left hasn’t had even a pretense of Christianity since ‘born again’ Jimmy Carter in 1976 …
Intrepid says
You never miss a chance to spread your vile lie, do you.
Beez says
“Christians love poverty,” said the Christian hater.
Wesgy says
The ruthlessness is now transferred to counting votes after elections until the totals agree with the preferred outcome. Who cares about intra-coalition fissures when you control the counting process?
Daniel Greenfield says
Ballot harvesting and adding votes in places your political machine controls only gets you so far.
Spurwing Plover says
The Democrats have been going the wrong away since the 1960’s after Kennedy and they just continue to go that way and sail right into the Whirlpool which will sink them
THX 1138 says
“Like all radical ideologies, the Left is unsustainable.”
The Left is unsustainable by reason, honesty, and persuasion, the electoral vote, but it is sustainable by tyranny and dictatorship and that’s the end game. Just like in Venezuela.
With no intransigent moral opposition and moral revolution to the moral code of altruism the Left will ultimately win, first by evasion, erosion, and rot, then finally by force.
“The goal of the “liberals”—as it emerges from the record of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot—by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli. (The goal of the “conservatives” was only to retard that process.)” – Ayn Rand
Intrepid says
More retarded rot from our rezidentura Marxist.
Steven Brizel says
The Left always feeds on itself and is looking for enemies of what it calls “our democracy”, which is really what Mark Levin calls Am,erican Marxism
Matt Tarango says
There’s this line from the 70s movie “The Big Fix”: “Know why the revolution never happened in America? It’s like being a party pooper at an orgy.” While I vaguely recall the villain’s were probably Republicans, I still fine hope in that line. Sometimes.
geoff mizel says
In 2009, obama came up with the declarative statement to the “fundamental transformation of America” from the VISION and IDEAL of the Founders, Framers and the Founding Documents. First baby steps and under #46 giant leaps of “faith” to implement and “new & better” America.
The RESULTS were astonishing. Progress was made and America in 2023 is very different than it was in the 1990s and before.
THE EVIDENCE IS EVERYWHERE. FakeNEWS, the babbling heads, “experts” and “FASCISTIC SOCIALISTS”/AMERICAN MARXISM see it has one of their “GREAT” accomplishments.
TRex says
Who voted for the “fundamental transformation” and why? The short answer is fools. As the saying goes; you get the government you deserve. Though it’s highly unlikely biden won there is no question Obama won (twice). He was/is the latest iteration of the Pied Piper and the “children” have still not awakened.
Anne says
Destruction is certain. It will come in the form of God’s judgment which sometimes takes awhile to be implemented. God will actually speed up the process for certain individuals to destroy themselves. Elohim is very powerful, He is the ruler of this world.