| Even the black and brown ones? Mr. Trump did better with those demographics than Mr. Romney did. |
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
Deplorable, Irredeemableand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen...
by causing "white America" to panic and stirring "white fear" among people who do not want minorities to grow, says an American political analyst.
Speaking to Press TV on Wednesday, Alan Bean, an executive director at the Friends of Justice, said there was a significant reason why the Democratic Party lost the race to the White House despite having the elite and the mass media on their side.
"The really amazing things about this election is that all of the elites in America, whether we are talking about the universities, the academy, the financial people on Wall Street, the captains of industry, certainly the mass media... almost all newspapers in the United States endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said.
"Even Fox News which usually is the voice of the very conservative white America was somewhat divided on Trump... and yet he won," the analyst noted.
The election result indicated that America is reaching a "tipping point" where minorities are "growing very rapidly" while the younger generations are increasingly developing liberal mindsets.
| David French of the National Review digs into the statistics: |
Last night, CNN analyst Van Jones — after offering his congratulations to Trump supporters — got quite emotional, claiming Trump’s win represented something he called a “whitelash.” Here’s the footage:
| Video at the link. |
Or maybe not. The exit polls are remarkable. Would you believe that Mitt Romney won a greater percentage of the white vote than Donald Trump? Mitt took 59 percent while Trump won 58 percent. Would you believe that Trump improved the GOP’s position with black and Hispanic voters? Obama won 93 percent of the black vote. Hillary won 88 percent. Obama won 71 percent of the Latino vote. Hillary won 65 percent. Critically, millions of minority voters apparently stayed home. Trump’s total vote is likely to land somewhere between John McCain’s and Romney’s (and well short of George W. Bush’s 2004 total), while the Democrats have lost almost 10 million voters since 2008.
And all this happened even as Democrats doubled-down on their own identity politics. Black Lives Matter went from a fringe movement to the Democratic mainstream in the blink of an eye. Radical sexual politics were mainstreamed even faster. White voters responded mainly by voting in the same or lesser numbers as the last three presidential elections. That’s not a “whitelash,” it’s consistency.
As I know all too well, a portion of Trump’s online support is viciously racist. Conservative and liberal Americans can and must exercise extreme vigilance to insure that not one alt-right “thinker” has a place in the Trump administration, but it’s simply wrong to attribute Trump’s win to some form of great white wave. Trump won because minority voters let him win. The numbers don’t lie. The “coalition of the ascendant” stayed home.