When the Majority Feels Demonized
Whites won’t be the absolute majority for too long in America. I thought this was the fear that drove so much of the Trump’ish change in their politics. But of course, reality is far more messy than that. One set of very vocal Americans began to trumpet the impending change in demographics as a good thing – as the end of white oppression (in America). Everything white was demonized. White majority was equated with white supremacy. Politicians did what they do in such situations. Starting with Hillary’s 2016 campaign, the Democratic party decided they should woo the groups who would collectively become the new majority, i.e., the non-whites. Which meant that more and more whites saw no option but the Republican party. As Michael Barone put it, the way some cheered the impending reduction in the percentage of white people soon became a “message that sometimes sounds like ‘hurry up and die’”. Inevitably there was a backlash, writes Andrew Sullivan: “By “b...