Trump MUST Go After The White Vote
I was looking at Real Clear Politics recently, and there's a whole bunch of different headlines essentially saying the same thing. One was saying the black vote in Milwaukee or Minnesota or somewhere was very important, and another said, I think it was Tim Scott saying the Biden's taking the black vote for granted. And there's a third item saying Hispanic voters are going to decide the election. This is all in one day on one page. What I don't see here, of course, is any discussion of the white vote.
I've been interested in the white vote for a very long time, ever since Steve Sailer pointed out 25 years ago that it would be much easier for Republicans to increase their overall vote by inreach to their white base, expanding their white base, than outreach to the tiny fraction of minorities who are likely to vote for them.
But this has absolutely no impact on public debate. People remain, and it's not just the left and the media. I think it's true for Republican consultants, obsessed with minority votes and completely indifferent or even oblivious to the fact there is a white vote out there.
Years ago, when I was at Stanford, I met someone who became quite a prominent Republican consultant. And he was a California conservative with libertarian leanings, and he worked in many election campaigns. And I remember saying to him once, I was asking him questions about how California breaks down in terms of racial division. Wouldn't it be possible to appeal to the white vote more? And he was deeply shocked. This is somebody I'd known for years. I went to his wedding. He said "Oh, well, we don't think about that. We don't like to think about race."
And I think that's profoundly true. Even professional Republican consultants don't want to think about race. This is what Gramsci called ideological hegemony. The left has complete ideological hegemony over the thinking even of professional Republican consultants, let alone the journalists and conservative intellectuals.
Recently, Trump had a disastrous poll from Fox showing Biden two points ahead, which I think is the first time Biden's been ahead in any major poll for a long time.
If you looked at it in detail, which, of course, people don't, Trump was only getting 46% of the white vote. 46%. Now Biden got less because quite a lot went to minority candidates. But this is obviously a disgraceful performance, and I don't see any way in which he's going to win without appealing to the white vote directly, or even implicitly, for that matter.
And of course, pinning green cards to diplomas of student immigrants or people on student visas is not the way to do it. On the other hand, if he does do it, even accidentally, he could win in a landslide.