The Democrats Have A Minority Voter Problem
Black and Latino voters are slowly pulling away from the Democratic party they embraced in such numbers in 2008. That’s a big problem in an increasingly non-white country.
"If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
“I shouldn’t have been so cavalier,” Biden said in a call with black business leaders the next day, but the world had seen and heard his comments of the previous day. Some tried to rationalise and justify — indeed, Joe Biden may have simply cracked a bad joke based on his belief that his agenda was better for black voters than the President’s agenda.
But the comments revealed the dark underbelly of Biden and the Democratic party at large: their feeling that they have a right to black and Latino votes. As people have now largely forgotten that the Democrats used to be the racist party, this view has prevailed among its supporters and politicians.
The kind of nonchalance and arrogance Biden showed with his comments are symptomatic of this prevailing sense of entitlement within the Democratic party. Indeed, with little by way of policy triggers for a shift away from the Democrats among minority voters, it may be this growing…
