State Senator James Talarico beat out Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett for the party’s nomination Tuesday by a healthy, though not embarrassing, margin. Under normal circumstances, with normal people, this would just be an election where one candidate won and the other lost. But we are dealing with Democrats here, and they are anything but normal people, and that makes for abnormal circumstances.
Democrats are not a unified group of people; they are an ever-changing coalition of groups of people who have been carefully cultivated through identity politics to be easily motivated to action based on the irrelevant characteristics they share. It’s an army of unthinking drones who don’t really like each other and have competing interests fighting for attention. It was always a house of cards. And while it may not be tumbling down right now, the Senate primary fight in Texas exposed a lot of the cracks in what is the “coalition” that makes up the Democratic Party’s base.
Talarico is a white guy and Crockett is a black woman. While you probably don’t care too much about that, to the “progressive” left, that means everything.
The progressive movement of the beginning of the last century was started by elitists who genuinely believed they were superior to everyone else. It wasn’t based on skin color, at least not completely; it was based on education and what they perceived to be “superior intellect.” Weirdly, it was mostly concentrated in the northeast.
These people would decide who was worthy of what, especially existing and breeding. “Low intellect” people were needed to do the “dirty work” of the time, but breeding at will was not acceptable, as they would soon overwhelm the system. Boom: Planned Parenthood and a push for abortion. Black people were the worst, even though there were plenty of black intellectuals who were a part of the progressive movement, so the abortion clinics had to be put near them, and unwitting sterilizations were implemented, albeit on a limited basis.
World War II and the horrors of fellow progressives in the Nazi regime put a damper on full-scale plans for the entire progressive movement seeking control of everyone, but the philosophy lived on, if only in academia. But academia is a great platform to infect others with the obedience beliefs needed for the progressive philosophy to really take hold.
It now owns the Democrats. And it gained that control through identity politics – the idea that you should identify with people more based on immutable characteristics than anything else. That prioritizes skin color, gender, sexual orientation, politics and all other manner of irrelevant traits over family, friendship, similar interests or geography.
You can see the impacts of this poison by how leftists will be wildly upset over the death of someone like Renee Good, who literally ran her SUV into a federal agent, or George Floyd, a junkie criminal who overdosed. In Democrat controlled cities across the country, leftist drones took to the streets in outrage over those deaths without recognizing or showing any concern for the scores of dead bodies in those cities. Scores of murders of people within walking distance of them did not motivate them to even vote differently, for people who might try to put an end to that slaughter, because a lesbian or a black man died in a way that the left found exploitable.
With that tribalism comes a lot of power to motivate people; to get them to vote against whatever “boogeyman” you’ve created for them, usually white people, specifically white men. In Texas, a white man was on the ballot and the establishment Left really, really favored him over the black woman, so they concocted a scam to make it seem like President Trump was trying to silence him.
That scam, run by Talarico’s campaign and fellow white guy Stephen Colbert, worked. Every single bit of it – that the FCC was threatening CBS if Colbert had him on – was a lie, and everyone knew it was a lie, but it was a useful lie, so it was reported as truth. Money flowed to Talarico over the lie and it carried him past Crockett, who could do nothing but watch as her pointing out the lie of this scam had her treated like a Republican by the corporate media. They wanted their white guy and they got their white guy.
Well, black women were very unhappy about this, having been conditioned to believe they can only be represented by someone who looks like them.
In the aftermath, black women were posting to social media about how they felt betrayed yet again (after Kamala) that a candidate who looked like them lost, because that candidate looked like them. There was no entertaining the idea that Crockett was a horrible candidate, mostly because Talarico was too; it had to be about race and gender. They were pledging NOT to vote for Talarico because of this feeling.
While that feeling will likely pass for most of them, the sentiments behind it are a problem for Democrats. Talarico is an awful candidate, and “evangelical pastor” who seems to spend a lot of time talking about how God is non-binary, Jesus was trans and the Bible is largely about using the power of government to force your will on others and justify abortion. Christians don’t recognize Talarico’s religion, and that won’t fly very well in Texas.
All of this was known; Talarico’s “sermons” were all online, but Crockett couldn’t draw attention to them. They were running in a Democrat primary where that would hurt her. But Republicans can. Just as Crockett couldn’t point out the vagaries of Talarico’s sexuality – he’s not married, effeminate, very, very concerned about the Alphabet Mafia (particularly the “T”), and he sends gaydars buzzing from coast to coast. That would have sunk her in a Democrat primary, but it raises questions about character and honesty, even if no one cares about what he does in private, in the general election.
Jasmine Crockett couldn’t run an honest primary campaign against James Talarico because she would have damaged both of them, thanks to left-wing identity politics. Now, black female pundits are turning on Hispanics for not voting for Crockett. The vote for Prop 8 in California back in 2008 already exposed what many people knew – black and Hispanic voters are not big fans of gay marriage. While the marriage issue may have subsided, the underlying animosity hasn’t – the idea of “the downlow” is still a very real thing in certain communities and cultures.
That fact, coupled with all the racial animosity and tribalism Democrats use to herd people into various groups – the divide TO conquer gambit, as it manipulating group against group is easier than convincing individuals – created a Democrat Party made up of a fragile coalition of groups that, thanks to the manipulation of “progressive leadership,” don’t really like or trust each other all that much.
When Biden was forced out of the race, the last person the liberal establishment wanted was Kamala Harris, as they knew she was a horrible candidate and an awful campaigner. But they could not pass over a black woman for a white man without losing the black vote, especially the black female vote, which is the most loyal to the party. They’d painted themselves into a corner.
Now, the party is painted into corners all over the country, with radical leftists challenging incumbents on the basis of identity as much as anything else. With each loss, another constituency is further alienated, and with every victory, another radical further alienates voters and damages the Democrat brand elsewhere in the country.
Democrats are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. It couldn’t happen to a nicer, more deserving group of people…
Of course, none of this matters if Republicans can’t get their acts together, achieve important victories on the economic front and elsewhere, and learn to message to voters not only just how awful what Democrats seek to do, but the good that Republicans will do. And they have to mean it. Those last two points may well be the best thing Democrats have going for them this cycle. Time will tell.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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