Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
“If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party”
We can hope!
#change their policies to attract different voters
Yes, yes, very funny.
The Republicans should clearly support expanded welfare, mass migration, and culture war against the country’s ethnic majority. That won’t upset their base at all and just make them a more sucky version of the Democrats.
Honestly, if they actually started changing policies to appeal outside their party in a way that wasn’t stupid… they’d be looking to pick up Asian voters by expanding the definition of white to include them. There are already risk factors for this in the current environment, it just remains to be seen if the visual difference is too much of a leap.
And if that happened, the democrats would quickly throw Asians under the bus. Socially, I mean. Apparently it isn’t mostly white people that are displaced by Affirmative Action, etc. There have been lawsuits about this.
Of course they won’t actually do this, because both the Republican and Democratic parties are never going to actually get smarter. Maybe if we didn’t have FPTP.
“Culture war against the country’s ethnic majority” is a fucking nuclear take. As if every poltical institution in this country doesn’t uphold white supremacy. what world are you living where the democrats pose a threat to whiteness?
Their goal seems to be:
“You can’t have oppression by an ethnic majority if you don’t have an ethnic majority.”
So not immediately, no. After all, Hillary Clinton was their presidential candidate. But it does seem like the plan is “let’s defeat white supremacy by making the whites a minority,” which might work, or might not work.
I live in a world where democrats periodically talk about how eventually all those darn old racist white redneck men will die off and America will be significantly more racially diverse, and the GOP needs to “get with the times, grampa”, so to speak. It’s also a world where the democrats describe opposition to immigration as fundamentally rooted in racism, and just last week I was arguing with someone I knew IRL that said America has an obligation to take in all peoples because it is on land stolen from Native Americans (and therefore not only can immigration not be decreased but we can’t even have limits on countries which lack functioning governments to vet newcomers).
This is, of course, ignoring all the various other progressive leftists grouped in with the democrats that are much less, hm, “gentle” and just looking at the mainstream of the party. (Again, Hillary “super predators” Clinton was their candidate, not their opinion columnists.)
Anyhow, “mass migration” is also a bit of an overstatement regarding current immigration policies, so “culture war against the country’s ethnic majority” is also a pull in the other direction for contrast with where they are right now, depending on just how you define culture war.
Though… once the demographics change, do you think they’ll actually stop trying to fight white supremacy? Or will they just change focus, like how women are the majority of undergraduate university students, but we mostly hear about how STEM needs more women (even though the fields of biology also flipped majority women recently, IIRC)?
And perhaps more importantly, do the Republican Party and their voters believe it will stop?