Progressive heads were no doubt exploding last night as Tucker Carlson in his monologue used the “R” word (ie, “replacement”) in describing the Democrats’ immigration policy.
Now, I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term “replacement,” if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World. But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually.
Speaking with Mark Steyn, Carlson described how in state after state, long-time Republican majorities have given way to Democrat rule, solely as a result of immigration. Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, California–each has seen the native-born segments of its population watered down on the way to an eventual swamping by an alien incursion.
Taking California as an example, Carlson notes that between 1948 and 1992, California was a reliably red state, voting Republican in every presidential election but one. In the 1970s, during Ronald Reagan’s tenure as governor, “California had the country’s best schools, the best infrastructure, the best economy, not to mention the prettiest national environment on the planet. California was a model for the world.”
Then came the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, ironically after Reagan had gained the White House. That law, Carlson says, “made future Ronald Reagans impossible” by giving amnesty to three million illegals. The next year, Reagan made matters worse by stoppiing the deportation of another 100,000 illegal minors, and he soon signed a law requiring hospitals to provide free medical care to illegals. Couple that with the Supreme Court’s guarantee of free education, and the word went out: America was open for all. Carlson describes the result:
Huge new waves of migrants arrived immediately, many of them illegal. California was transformed virtually overnight into a Democratic state. No Republican ever will win in California, not in our lifetimes. There are now about twice as many registered Democrats in California as there are Republicans.
The Democratic Party . . . rigged the game with more people. They packed the electorate. As a result, Americans who grew up in California lost their most basic right in a democracy, the right to have their votes count.
Since 1990, the total population of California has grown by 10 million people, most of whom have come from poverty-stricken foreign countries, and the state has suffered commensurately. Once the richest area its size in the world, California now has more poor people than any state in the country and the highest poverty rate.
The same thing is happening or will happen all over America. Our native-born population, annoyingly hostile to many of the left’s schemes, is being displaced, slowly but ever so surely, with a more compliant electorate, and the Democrat Party is reaping the rewards. Carlson quotes Julian Castro, who would soon be an Obama cabinet member, in 2013 triumphantly predicting the political transformation of the state of Texas:
In a couple of presidential cycles, you’ll be — on Election Night, you’ll be announcing that we’re calling the 38 electoral votes of Texas for the Democratic nominee for president. It’s changing. It’s going to become a purple state and then a blue state because of the demographics, because of the population growth of folks from outside of Texas.
Those folks are not just from “outside of Texas.” They’re from Latin America, Africa, Asia–outside of any of the homelands of the country’s founding stock. That’s the way you take over a country: you change its people. And that’s what’s happening before our eyes.
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