Flush with victories in 2006 and 2008 the Tranzi Totalitarian movement was talking about a permanent majority and realignment. The media was tauting the death of Conservatism and a permanent Democratic majority. In reality they didn’t defeat Conservatism, they defeated Compassionate Conservatism which is a cousin ideology of Traniz Progressivism! Another claim was that young people, women, Blacks and Hispanics were increasing in numbers, while White males were declining. What these propagandists didn’t realize was that demographics don’t indicate voting patterns. The the polls show the GOP is winning the women’s vote and cut into the Hispanic and youth vote. These groups are seeing the failures of left-wing ideology and as a result are becoming receptive to real Regan/Goldwater conservatism and not the fraudulent Karl Rove Progressivism with a bible variety.
After Barack Obama’s election in 2008, the phrase was on the lips of progressive prognosticators everywhere. A permanent alignment had arrived. The growing ranks of Latinos, the reliably liberal voting patterns of blacks, the Republican Party’s longstanding problem with single women, plus the fact that surveys found young people — a.k.a. millennials — to be the most liberal generation in decades all proved that the aging, white GOP was destined for near-eternal rump status. In a Time magazine cover story featuring Obama as a Photoshopped FDR, Peter Beinart wrote that the “coalition that carried Obama to victory is every bit as sturdy as America’s last two dominant political coalitions: the ones that elected Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.”
Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg eulogized Republicans: “Their coalition no longer works in the changing demography of the day, and is dangerously old; their Southern strategy … has become a relic of the past; their tech and media tools have not kept up with the times; their ideas have become spent and discredited…. They are an aging and frayed bunch, living off the fumes of a day and politics gone by.”
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But if the first half of the Obama presidency proves anything, it is that straight-line predictions lead to political hubris. Events change and attitudes change with them, for every demographic.
Read the rest: Demography isn’t political destiny
People change and groups change over time. At one time White Catholics were heavily Democratic, this changed with Nixon and Reagan and now they lean GOP. Blacks were at one time Republican but due to Progressive brainwashing and the creation of a Neo-Slave mentality by racist Democrats , they are now solid Democrats. Times change and people change, so any predictions of a permanent majority by either Progresisves or Conservatives are bogus. People vote on results and if the GOP blows it again, the Progressives will be back.
Tags: Compassionate Conservatism, Jonah Goldberg, Karl Rove, Totalitarian Progressives
