What happens, I wonder, what happens if republicans give in on immigration, or more accurately, amnesty - and by give in one means to sign off on a deal that is far from perfect but they feel they have no choice but to agree to because the optics of walking away and the glee with which Obama et al will run that grist through their racial mill are judged to be worse - what happens if republicans cave on immigration and gain nothing or close to nothing at the polls because of it? Seems to me you'd probably be forced to conclude that the latino voter was quickly acquiring the monolithic ideological tendencies of the African-American voter - love big gov't initiatives, Obamacare, taxing the evil rich, empty touchy feely or stridently aggressive rhetoric about the putative glories of multiculturalism as if by simply not being of white Anglo-Saxon origin a cultural artifact became necessarily good - etc etc - in short one would probably have to conclude that Hispanics like blacks were irredeemably lost to the left - and if it starts to look like that indeed is the case, then it seems to me America will have arrived at a pretty perilous crossroads - it will mean that the first black president has so successfully fused left wing academia's obsession with cancerous identity politics into the electoral zeitgeist of the democrats that the country is on the verge of being subsumed by a state of permanent disunion along racial and class warfare lines - call me a wretched cynic, but that kind of sounds like a bad thing to me.
I mean, what if on the heels of an abysmally bad Obama presidency [I think any objective observer would describe the Obama reign right now as decidedly bad so abysmally bad I'd say is fairly within reach] - what if on the heels of that ostensibly disqualifying reality Hillary in 2016 still manages to beat a very popular and highly qualified Chris Christie [who I pray is the nominee as things stand now] because she takes by virtual default 90% of the black vote, 75% of the latino vote, 65% of the female vote? I don't see how a person with a clear, unbiased view of things would not be troubled by such a sight.
Now, sure, Hillary could surprise and prove a much better president than she was Secretary of State - and, sure, under Bill's wise counsel she could wake up the morning after being elected with the full understanding that Obama did much harm to the country and it's now her job to try and heal it - that could happen, but I doubt it, and that's because, when it comes to domestic policy at least, I think she's just as liberal as Obama and believes just as surely as he that the country needs to be forced left. And here's the key: Obama has given democrats the roadmap for doing this and until it's proven flawed or misguided I don't expect any left wing politician to shun it - briefly the map being: shamelessly exploit your media advantage to manipulate voters and dominate narratives, ruthlessly ply identity politics and class warfare rhetoric to split the country and maximize benefits of changing demographics, and then tie it all together with an aggressive ground game driven by highly sophisticated statistical analysis that has very little to do with the promoting of wise policy and almost everything to do with demonizing the opposition. Unless Obama's presidency over the next three years falls to a ruin so egregious even the NY Times can't ignore it, expect Hillary to follow this map to victory.
If it comes to that I'm guessing the key will be the Asian vote - if 2016 transpires as described above but Asians move to the right so that that demographic looks to be evening out, that would be a sign of hope - I'd still say the country was in bad shape and facing some damn tough challenges - I'd still say eight years of Obama had generated a deadly toxin in the body politik that could take generations to expel - but not all hope was lost. Close, though - hell, a best case scenario [Christie] could prove highly troubling and problematic for the GOP - but what if they scorn Christie and go with another loser utterly lacking in the ability to bridge those dangerous gaps and divides now fracturing the electorate into a hopelessly bifurcated mash of ignorance and petty grievances? Well... fat ladies singing everywhere... corpulent choirs of doom.
