If you are a white Iowa voter, you are probably wondering, along with the 84.5% of other fellow whites in your state, as to what you did to be so unceremoniously penalized by the Democratic Party.
In President Biden’s America, identity and checkbox politics are all that matter. The Biden administration is the most fervent adherent to identity politics, making race, in many cases, the only qualifying factor that counts.
It is one thing when a more qualified white or Asian American loses out to Biden’s picks. The victims may despise their luck but shrug it off as they seek gainful employment elsewhere. But the Democratic Party last week went to the extreme by being willing to paint an entire state with identity ink. Not just Iowa but even whiter New Hampshire, where 88.5% of the population is white.
Political traditions are essential to liberals only as long as they can use them to their advantage. When President Trump refused to disclose his tax returns – there is no law requiring candidates to do so – the Dems used the “tradition” argument to fight it to the Supreme Court and make his tax returns public days before they yielded House control to the GOP.
As political traditions go, New Hampshire has been the first-in-the-nation primary since 1920. But New Hampshire’s fault is that it is not sufficiently Black. So, the Democratic Party decided to demote it to second place in the 2024 primary calendar and force it to share the spotlight with Nevada, a state with a significant Hispanic population that has been steadily moving towards the GOP. Both primaries will now happen on Feb 6, 2024.
And South Carolina, which has been the country’s fourth-in-the-nation primary state, was elevated to first place only because of its substantial Black population. The calendar puts South Carolina first on Feb. 3, 2024.
Iowa voters were insulted even more. Iowa is not identified in the caucus/primary calendar at all. In a further unkind cut to the Hawkeye state, the Dems approved Georgia moving up to Feb 13 and Michigan to Feb 27. Both Georgia and Michigan have large Black populations.
But for all of New Hampshire’s shine as the first primary state, it has only had a 58.3% success rate in picking the eventual winner of the Democratic Party nomination. Since 1976, it has failed to determine the ultimate nominee on five occasions (1984: Gary Hart; 1992: Paul Tsongas; 2008: Hillary Clinton; 2016: Bernie Sanders; 2020: Bernie Sanders).
If merit were the standard, South Carolina has done a far better job providing momentum to the eventual winner. Since 1988, the Palmetto State has failed only twice (1988: Jesse Jackson and 2004: John Edwards). Not counting 1996, when the primary was canceled altogether, South Carolina has a 75% chance of picking the Democratic Party’s nominee.
And continuing this argument, President Biden could have said Iowa badly bungled the 2020 presidential caucus by announcing results very late and doesn’t deserve to be the country’s first caucus.
But using merit as a justification would have been easy and shown leadership. The President wanted to make an identity statement for the thousandth time by saying that he favors South Carolina as the primary leader because it is more representative demographically of the entire country. Translation: It is more Black than New Hampshire and Iowa. His move to use race as a primary factor in reordering the primary calendar is a blatant violation of U.S. statutes. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
We are curious to know if these Democratic Party moves can survive court challenges. New Hampshire takes its responsibility to conduct retail politics so seriously that it has passed a state law to protect its status. In an opening salvo, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu insisted that he would defend the Granite State’s position. “The good news is that our primary will still be first, and the nation will not be held to a substandard process dictated by Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.”
What would happen if New Hampshire conducted its primary on Feb 3 anyway? Would the Democratic Party disallow the state’s delegates at the party convention? Would white purists in South Carolina who respect traditions in honoring New Hampshire’s role not show up at the polls?
A messy battle is ahead as the Democratic Party’s assault on White America continues unabated.
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Republished with permission from TIPP Insights
