2045 will be a landmark year, because if current
population trends continue, that will most likely be the year the United States
becomes a majority-minority country. To spell that out, if you are on the
planet in 2045 and you happen to be a non-Hispanic white American, you will no
longer be in the majority.
And just to rub it in for those who proudly wear a
MAGA cap and for whom tear gas at the border brings tears of joy, 2015 marked
the year that racial-ethnic minority babies in the U.S. officially outnumbered
white babies.
Donald Trump can stop a caravan, but he can’t stop
reality. Of course, he can lie about reality, which is just fine for the
roughly one-third of our fellow citizens who have taken up residence in Donald
Trump’s alternative universe.
The MAGA in your life will tell you that
immigrants, which in this case does not mean Norwegians who have overstayed
their visas, but rather those dangerous brown people from poop-hole countries,
who come here specifically to bring crime and disease, are the number one
problem facing each and every one of us.
I know a few of you who have placed your faith in
Donald Trump. I know many more of you through your posts and comments on social
media. I hear your anger.
You happen to live in one of the many cities,
towns, or neighborhoods across the country that has already shifted from white
majority to white minority, leaving you surrounded by others, who speak English with odd accents, or speak languages that
are not American, or attend services of a dangerous
religion, and these non-white invaders now live in homes where the friends from
your childhood once lived. I get it. I do.
You used to ask yourself: How did this happen?
Now you tell yourself and anyone who will listen: This country
is being taken from us!
So, when Donald J. Trump arrived on the
presidential scene, after he had already convinced you that the first Black
President was actually born in Kenya, thereby making him an illegitimate POTUS,
there was no question about it. Trump was your candidate.
And when he came back to you in 2016 and told you to
support his war to save the real
America, you absolutely had go to the polls, and you absolutely had to vote
against every open border, soft on crime, caravan loving Democrat on the ballot.
You answered the call. Of course you did! You
voted Republican.
As the exit polls told us, 75% of Republicans believed that the number one issue facing the country
was Immigration. Fox News told them
that the caravan of invaders was within striking distance. There were Middle
Easterners and tough hombres hiding amongst the innocent looking families and they
were carrying diseases like small pox. Troops had been sent. Barbed wire was
being strung. Tear gas had been fired. This was a national emergency!
But angry Hillary-loving, Trump-hating Democrats just
didn’t get it. 75% of them believed that
Health Care was the most serious issue facing the country.
Propaganda won Republicans, but would it win the
midterms?
Democrats
won back the U.S House of Representatives with a 40 seat advantage, flipped 7
governorships, 6 state legislative chambers, and over 300 House and Senate
seats.
Not only did Donald Trump’s phony caravan politics
lose the midterm elections by a landslide, but it may well have lost the future
for what has become a party of cowardice, hypocrisy, and unconscionable
opportunism.
How is the party of Old White Men, currently owned
and operated by Trump, going to survive until 2045 when the midterm exit polls
tell us that 76% of non-Hispanic white
voters voted Democratic and only 22% voted Republican?
How is the party selling fear of the future going
to stay in business when their most important potential customers – young
voters –
are not buying the necessity of putting children in cages?
67%
of voters age 18 to 29 (aka: the future) voted Democratic while 32% voted
Republican. And, if we add early-middle agers to
that group, we see that voters age 18 to
44 broke for Democrats 61% to 36%.
Donald Trump was never really a Republican. He was
just a loud mouth celebrity, who mainlined notoriety. Even he was probably
shocked at how easily the Grand Old Party turned over the keys to the car. With
their permission, he has taken the nation on a terrifying joy ride.
However it ends, they are as guilty as he is, and
they should never be forgiven. Just going out of business is not punishment
enough.
Until it ends, I will continue to survive Trump
two minutes at a time.
