Democrats Need White Men

Is it even controversial to say that?

For years the Democrats’ theory of the case went something like this: we’re the party of inclusion, the party of anti-racism, and our positive, forward-looking stance on identity politics will pull in women voters, lots of Black voters, LGBTQ voters, and, critically, the majority of Latino voters, i.e., people from the fastest-growing demographic in the country. Together we will create an unbeatable rainbow coalition!

Dems felt like each piece of their policy puzzle would earn them votes from a certain demographic. We protected Roe v Wade expecting it would get us women voters and we fought for civil rights expecting that would get us Blacks and we fought for gay marriage expecting that would get us LGBTQ votes and we’d be chill about undocumented immigration expecting that to bring us Latino Americans.

On the issue of undocumented immigrants, Dems have sometimes been like the parent who wants to get along with their kids so badly that they’ll give em anything. From DACA to driver’s licenses to sanctuary cities, it’s like we’re always trying to be as nice and as lenient toward immigrants who are here while Republicans raged about how mean they could be toward people they called illegal aliens, a term that makes them sound not human. The contrast was clear: we treated the undocumented humanely while they didn’t even see them as people. Surely, Latino Americans would be with us because of this, right?