Rebranding The Dem Party

For years Steve Sailer has maintained that the Dem party is gradually being rebranded and will eventually become the Black party. That rebranding will likely lead to the reconfiguration of American political parties because, while Black Americans are an absolutely essential component of the Dem base, the other members of the Dem “coalition of the [societal] fringes”—another Sailer meme—are unlikely to accept Black leadership. Hispanics? Asians? Working class Whites? Jews? That coalition of the fringes has largely held together based on caricatures of Americans who tend to vote Republican, not based on broad commonalities of interests. The current meltdown of the Dem party political process, caused by Zhou’s mental meltdown, raises the question: Has the time for rebranding arrived?

If that’s what’s going on, it won’t be the result of a plot. Rather, as so often happens, it will likely be an opportunistic power grab. Initially, the debate debacle was seen as an opportunity to replace Zhou, push the unpopular Kama Sutra aside, and install one of the darlings of liberal Whites/Jews: Newsome or Whitmer. The pushback came swift and hard, from Donna Brazile, a veteran Dem operative who knows the party inside and out. Brazile framed the issue in starkly racial terms: No White replacement for Kama Sutra.

Of course, Kama Sutra has an ace in the hole—control of the Zhou campaign fund raising. Again, one can’t help noticing that the Dems who are rallying around Kama Sutra are themselves largely “people of color.” Meaning, non-White and non-Jewish (even though Kama Sutra’s husband is Jewish). The other replacement these folks have floated has been predictable: la Michelle.

It all begins to look like a possible power play by the Black Congressional Caucus. The BCC already wields disproportionate power in the House. With a Kama Sutra or la Michelle in the White House, they could take control of the DNC and the entire party. This has to be an alarming prospect for the power and money brokers who have long controlled the Dem party, because a rebranding of the party as the Black party would likely have two results: 1) a reordering of priorities that would probably not be at all to the liking of the previous power brokers, and 2) a collapse of the party itself. Because the money would go elsewhere.

Of course, the coalition of the fringes could unite behind Black leadership and decide to all just get along. Don’t bet on that.

Today I came across an interesting article that provides numbers to explain how Black Americans see America. Anyone who thinks a rebranding would mean business as usual needs to think twice:

Black Americans Still Feel Systematically Held Back

Key excerpt—and please pay attention to the key word: “designed.”

As Statista's Felix Richter reports, whether it’s in terms of income, wealth, education, imprisonment or health outcomes – statistically, Black Americans fare significantly worse than Americans of other races and ethnicities. And while a recent Pew Research survey showed that 52 percent of U.S. adults think that the country has made a great deal or a fair amount of progress in ensuring equal rights for all people over the past 60 years, an equally high share of Americans agree that these efforts haven’t gone far enough.

You will find more infographics at Statista

Among Black Americans, the view on progress is much more negative with just 30 percent of respondents saying that significant progress has been made and 83 percent thinking that efforts to ensure equal rights have been insufficient.

Further highlighting the degree to which Black Americans feel discriminated against until this day, another Pew survey shows that the majority of Black adults don’t just feel treated unfairly out of negligence, they feel held back systematically across various U.S. institutions.

According to the September 2023 survey of 4,736 Black U.S. adults, 74 percent of respondents think that the U.S. prison system was designed to hold Black people back.

70 percent of respondents think the same of U.S. courts and the judicial system, while more than 60 percent think that policing, the political system and the economic system were designed to disadvantage Black Americans.

“Black Americans’ mistrust of U.S. institutions is informed by history, from slavery to the implementation of Jim Crow laws in the South, to the rise of mass incarceration and more,” the Pew Research Center writes, but it is also informed by personal experience. 75 percent of Black adults say that they’ve personally experienced discrimination or unfair treatment because of their race or ethnicity, and among the victims of discrimination 73 percent say that it made them feel like the system was designed to keep them down.

This is the future that the owners of the Dem party are wrestling with as they confront the Zhou problem. They could also be confronting a slave revolt.