Appeals to the sacred nature of “our democracy” neglect a more fruitful approach to democracy as a game. Like all political systems, it presents players with particular rules, prohibitions, and, critically, means of exploitation. In the American context, victory necessitates wooing the electorate.
Republicans and Democrats have seized on divergent strategies to this end. Democrats have attempted to build a coalition of the disaffected: the non-white, the non-heterosexual, the non-wealthy. Thus explains, as conservatives have long suspected, the Democrats’ zeal for immigration and racial heterogeneity. Former President Barack Obama’s election was the culmination of these efforts. Obama won 95% of black voters, 67% of Latino voters, and 62% of Asian voters, and 43% of white voters in 2008, according to Pew Research Center. Then came Donald Trump. On the heels of Trump’s second presidential victory, Democrats are reeling from the sudden dissolution of a race-centered strategy decades in the making. (RELATED: Politicians Threaten To Deploy Favorite Dirty Weapon In Battle For 2026)
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