Why Trump Will Be America’s Last Republican President

by Spencer P Morrison, NEE
Americans overwhelmingly favor immigration reform

If Republicans Fail to Pass Immigration Reform, they Will Lose the Presidency for Good

Elections aren’t won by governing well, they’re won by rewarding supporters and punishing opponents.  This is the central lesson in The Dictator’s Handbook, a book everyone interested in understanding the human side of politics should read—and it’s a lesson the Democrats learned well.
In fact, the Democrats took it a step further: not only do they reward their supporters with government appointments, and punish conservatives by violating their constitutional rights; over the last half-century they have imported an entirely new voting block.  The Democrats didn’t just play dirty politics, they rigged the game itself.
 
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965—alternatively known as the Hart-Celler Act—opened America’s borders to the world, and forever changed the rules of political engagement in this nation.  No longer was politics fought along primarily ideological and historical lines, instead, it became more profitable to play the game of “identity politics”.  That is, the Democrats realized that by pandering to immigrant families and positioning themselves as the “immigrant party”, they could lock up a potentially infinite source of future voters.
And while it’s true that America’s political culture has always, to some degree or another, been mired in issues of racial identity simply due to the biracial nature of the nation, it is also true that the exploitation of black-white tensions was not a “growth market” from a political standpoint—especially considering that the Democrats were on the losing side of the civil rights movement.  They needed a fresh source of voters, and they found one.
Since 1965 more than 45 million people have immigrated to the United States—America’s immigrant population is now at an all-time high.  That immigration has added a significant number of new voters is obvious, but perhaps less intuitive is the fact that America’s immigrant population votes Democrat by a wide margin.
chart from pew research showing race and party affiliation
According to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, immigrants vote Democrat by a ratio of at least 2:1.
Likewise, another study from Pew Research shows that non-white Americans vote Democrat by a ratio of roughly 3:1.  True, this number includes a significant number of black Americans, but the general trend of the data remains.  Furthermore, this predilection seems to persist to second, and third-generation immigrants.  Of course, this is unsurprising—politics tends to run in the family.
The overwhelming ratio by which immigrants vote Democrat has had a profound effect on American politics.  Consider that, with the exception of the Perot debacle of 1992, no Democratic presidential candidate has won a majority of the American-born vote since Lyndon B Johnson in 1964.  Every subsequent Democratic president—Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton (second term), Barack Obama—won only because of the immigrant vote.
I note this observation not to discredit the legitimacy of their election victories, but only to acknowledge the major impact immigration has had on American political life.  Immigration has literally changed the course of history—and it will continue to do so.

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Trump: the last Republican President

Many Republicans rightly oppose any potential amnesty for DACA recipients because they fear the political ramifications of giving some 2 million people the right to vote—people who will almost assuredly vote Democrat.
But who cares?  At the end of the day, DACA doesn’t matter—and I say this as someone who staunchly opposes DACA.  We need to put things in perspective: DACA will grant amnesty for a maximum of 2 million people.  Meanwhile, 1.5 million people immigrate to America every single year.  Looking strictly in terms of their ballot box impact, a DACA amnesty equates to just another ordinary year.
This is a sobering thought, and yet immigration reform is given virtually no attention by the GOP, who prefers to debate the merits of Russian conspiracy theories and other inconsequential nonsense.
Although the media will not discuss this topic, I will.  Consider that President Trump won by just 112,911 votes in Florida and 10,704 in Michigan—both states which could quite conceivably alter the course of the 2020 election.  These are slim margins.
Now consider that every year a net 147,000 foreigners immigrate to Florida, and 22,919 immigrate to Michigan.  There numbers are high enough to swing the election in the course of a single year—much less the four years that will have elapsed before the 2020 election.  Unless President Trump has a horseshoe hidden in his hair, demographics almost guarantee that he will lose in 2020.
Of course, this is not to say that Trump will not win—voter turnout is highly variable, and people’s political preferences are not etched in stone—but we must admit that the odds are not on his side.  In fact, if present trends continue, Trump will almost assuredly be the last Republican president, until the party re-brands to cater to America’s changing demographics.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.  America is not doomed to a future of Democratic presidents.  We could quite easily reform our immigration system—if only the political will existed.

Polls Show that Americans Support Immigration Reform

If the GOP simply respected the will of the people, this would no longer be an issue.  As it turns out, Americans overwhelmingly support immigration reform, and President Trump has already signaled his support for the RAISE Act.
Consider that according to a new Harvard-Harris poll, 81 percent of Americans want a reduction in immigration levels to 1 million or lower.  The Free Beacon reports:
The plurality of respondents, 35 percent, think that there should be between 1 and 250,000 legal immigrants arriving to the United States per year. A net 12 percent want to see immigration increased to 1.5 million people per year or more, while nine percent of Americans think that there should be no new legal immigrants.
Plurality preference for between 1 and 250,000 new immigrants a year persists across white, Hispanic, and black Americans, as well as moderates and self-identified Democrats. . .
Americans prefer a system of prioritizing would-be legal immigrants based on their ability to contribute, based on their education and skills, over one based on immigrants having relatives in the United States, 79 to 21 percent. That includes a majority of white (79 percent), Hispanic (72 percent), and black (85 percent) citizens, as well as majorities of Democrats (72 percent), liberals (65 percent),  and Clinton voters (72 percent).
The poll clearly shows that the majority of Americans are against mass immigration, and that support for this crosses racial and ideological lines—it’s as close to a non-partisan issue as you can get.
These findings are consistent with other polling done on the topic of immigration.  For example, research done by Pulse Opinion Research found that voters in “swing states” favored comprehensive immigration reform by a 3:1 margin—immigration reform is the winning-ticket.
The new poll also found that the majority of Americans opposed the “diversity lottery” program, wherein green cards are allocated to people from low-immigration countries:
Americans support doing away with the so-called diversity visa lottery 68 to 32 percent. The lottery, with its 50,000 visas allocated to nations otherwise underrepresented in the mix of immigrants arriving in the United States, has been a frequent target of criticism by Trump and congressional Republicans.
What these polls show is that Americans oppose mass immigration, and have elected a president to follow-through on their wishes.  That the GOP is dragging its feet should make it crystal-clear to every American that they need to remain ever-vigilant, and that they should not place their trust in “representatives” whom they have never met nor heard of.
For America to survive, we must make politics personal again.
 
 

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6 thoughts on “Why Trump Will Be America’s Last Republican President”

  1. “”If Republicans Fail to Pass Immigration Reform, they Will Lose the Presidency for Good””
    suggesting that republican voters will vote democrat? yalls are stoned. oh and then there’s this::
    “”Elections aren’t won by governing well, they’re won by rewarding supporters and punishing opponents.””
    i will suggest that U.S. federal elections are not won at all, the preferred candidate is selected from one of the two parties that are in reality merely two sides of the same coin, or two heads of the same snake if you will, and installed by the powers that be.
    us little guys have to just suck it. do yalls actually believe that there are really “battle-ground states”? “swing states”” really, kansas? if voting at the federal level actually meant anything, then california’s votes alone would decide every election.
    hey. get yalls heads in the game::
    9/11 WAS A BIG FAT MURDEROUS INSURANCE SCAM INSIDE JOB PERPETRATED BY MEMBERS OF BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE MILITARY AND THE MEDIA
    but nobody cares. nobody says boo.
    hey i wonder what color trump’s wife’s panties are today, as trump boldly “makes america great again”.
    yalls feel great again yet?

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  2. If Republicans Fail to Pass Immigration Reform, they Will Lose the Presidency for Good?
    What a load of crap, there are plenty more reason why republicans could be facing extinction, failing to Pass Immigration reforms isn’t one of them. Only some dumb as a door knob politically illiterate SJW snowflake could write a paid for propaganda article like this. IWB isn’t spreading the truth and empowering people with this trash article it’s doing the exact opposite.

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    • Republicans is the wrong term, both parties should hold no individual loyalties since they’re both working against the people and it’s dangerously ignorant to bind yourself to something as ridiculous as a political party. Conservativism, which has been dead for decades, is more appropriate and in that respect immigration is the #1 factor in this debate. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand demographics is destiny and who votes for what. Not reversing the policy that was done INTENTIONALLY for this very reason of empowering one political side will be your downfall.
      All political parties are utter crap and that includes Green and Libertarian. At this point it’s only values that are worth saving and that isn’t going to be done politically until you win the culture war that’s forever ongoing and has currently been lost for 60 years by failed right wingers to realize that it was.

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      • Just as the right/left paradigm is one gigantic political illusion, so are the present and ongoing culture wars being fed to the politically ignorant mass by the paid for propaganda presstitutes, the elected and non-elected political finger puppets including NGO’s and The United Nations. The so called Right didn’t loose it’s position on cultural differences it was ordered to forgo it’s position +/-100 years ago. It’s all part of the Elites Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis game being played on a global scale.

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  3. “Why Trump Will Be America’s Last Republican President?”
    Let’s indeed hope, regardless of party, he is the last “Beverly Hillbillies” President, a big, lumbering, foul-mouthed fool in every respect.

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