Liberal New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait worried that young minority voters were rejecting the Democratic Party after decades of rallying them to vote.
in his column“Are Young People Really Progressive?” Chait warned that “Democrats' false assumptions are putting the party at risk.”
He cited recent polling showing former President Trump leading President Biden among young voters, who he said had an “ironclad loyalty” to the Democratic Party. It goes against widely held beliefs.
A December Fox News poll showed Trump holding a 13-point lead over Biden among voters under 30. Polls from the New York Times and USA Today also show Biden has overwhelming support among black, Hispanic and young voters who voted for him in 2020. .
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Those in the mainstream media do not believe that President Biden and former President Trump are so close in the polls. (Biden photo: Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images, Trump photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Chait argued that these results show that Democrats made a strategic mistake in focusing on young minority voters.
“The unthinkable is now undeniable, at least for the time being,” he wrote. “The progressive movement made a big bet to mobilize young voters. That strategy, with its bright hopes and billions of dollars, is now in ruins.”
Democrats mistakenly believed that race would be the “determining factor” in future election outcomes. But Chait argued that black Democrats and Hispanics actually hold more moderate views than white liberals on immigration, the environment, crime and abortion.
Progressive activists and the media have gotten this wrong, he says.
“The danger is not that young voters, so demoralized by Biden, will sit around in 2024. The danger is that they will actually vote Republican,” Chait said. He worried that that number included progressive voters who were angry about Biden's support for Israel and were threatening to vote for Trump.
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The columnist argued that it was actually college education, not race, that was dividing the Democratic Party.
“Democrats gained white college-educated voters but lost non-white voters without a college degree. This shift upends traditional assumptions about turnout,” the columnist argued.
He said Democrats will win elections if the most “committed and organized people” come to vote, pointing to their victory in the 2022 midterm elections.
“The new rule is that the fewer people who turn out to vote, the better the Democrats will do. It would be a delicious irony if the Republicans' relentless enforcement of voter suppression laws ultimately drove President Trump into a corner. It is a thin reed to expect low “should lay the foundations for the salvation of democracy,'' Chait argued.
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Democrats have proposed various theories as to why minority voters will abandon Biden in 2024. In November, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, sparked outrage when she suggested that Black voters dissatisfied with Biden were blinded by their feelings about the economy and didn't understand. Civic system.
