Democrats Are Losing Grip on 2 Key Demographics, Winsome Sears Says. ‘Who Better to Help Make That Change but Me?’

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Heritage Foundation

Winsome Sears, the Republican lieutenant governor-elect of Virginia, told The New York Times that Democrats are at risk of losing black and immigrant voters.

As an immigrant from Jamaica and the first black woman elected to statewide office in Virginia, Sears told The New York Times she was the perfect person to kickstart her demographic’s political realignment in America.

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“The message is important,” Sears told the outlet. “But the messenger is equally important.”

“The only way to change things is to win elections,” she said. “And who better to help make that change but me? I look like the strategy.”

 

Sears, who won alongside Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, attributes her own identification as a conservative to listening to debates over abortion and welfare during the 1988 presidential election, the newspaper reported. She later ran in a majority-black district for the House of Delegates in 2001, winning a seat that had been held by a Democrat for 20 years.

Sears argued that Republicans never even tried to sever the historic relationship between black voters and the Democratic Party, which is partly why she decided to run for lieutenant governor, the paper reported.

“I just took a look at the field and said, ‘My God, we’re gonna lose again,’” Sears said. “Nobody was going to reach out to the various communities that needed to be heard from: women, immigrants, you know, Latinos, Asians, blacks, etc.”

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Sears argued that Republicans never even tried to sever the historic relationship between black voters and the Democratic Party, which is partly why she decided to run for lieutenant governor, the paper reported.

“I just took a look at the field and said, ‘My God, we’re gonna lose again,’” Sears said. “Nobody was going to reach out to the various communities that needed to be heard from: women, immigrants, you know, Latinos, Asians, blacks, etc.”

 

 

I often wonder if the MNGOP knows there are voters Ripe for the picking inside the beltway?

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The left doesn’t own minority voters

Unless left-wing parties drop their woke dogmas, they’ll struggle in the increasingly diverse West.

Joel Kotkin

Dec. 29 2021

Demographic transitions present political opportunities, but do not protect politicians from their own folly. The shift in most Western countries to a more racially and ethnically diverse demographic has been widely seen by left-wingers as an opportunity to cement their ascendancy.

Yet after early successes with this strategy, the parties of the left have witnessed the departure of some minority voters – Hindus in Britain, Asians in Australia, and Asians and Hispanics in the United States. In some cases, minorities are opting out of the intersectional bandwagon, which includes certain cultural attitudes, imposed progressivism in schools, and an increasing tolerance of crime.

Sadly, racialism and constant campaigns to address ‘systemic racism’ have driven a certain element of working-class whites not only in Trumpian America, but also in France, Britain, Germany and even Scandinavia, towards nativist, even openly racist, politics. As Michael Lind among others suggest, the fashionable focus on ‘white privilege’ and assigning original sin based on someone sharing DNA with settlers and slave owners also doesn’t work with the majority of Americans, who come from families who came to America after the Civil War. Meanwhile, crowing about ‘the end of white America’ might be popular in ethnic-studies departments, but it does not translate into a better life for most minorities.

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None of this suggests that minorities are necessarily going to shift mostly to the right, as some populist conservatives now fervently hope. If left-wingers can somehow abandon their cultural and environmental dogmatism, and focus on basic economic concerns, they could do quite well in our diverse society. But politicians right and left need to recognise that, like other groups, minorities tend to identify with their own basic interests and those of their children. The parties that focus on addressing these primary concerns, rather than waving the bloody flag of racism, will be most likely rewarded.