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Carlson said: "I have less political power because they're importing a brand-new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that? The power that I have as an American guaranteed at birth is one man, one vote, and they're diluting it. No, they are not allowed to do that. Why are we putting up with this?"
Then, he clarified his comments, wadding deeper into the Big Muddy: "Now," he said, "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. Let's just say it: That's true."
It's not.
If our electoral and political history proves anything it is that people change when they arrive on these shores.
Two centuries ago, the Anglo-Saxon Americans feared the arrival of Irish worried that their Catholicism would lead them to the left and constitute a revolutionary minority undermining our country.
A century and a half ago, Italian- Americans were seen as leftist revolutionaries, bomb throwers, akin to the likes of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, who were said to be behind plots to destroy our society.
Now, Irish-Americans and Italian-Americans are no longer leftists, but more often side with the Republican Party.
One hundred years ago, when women got the vote, men argued that their votes were being replaced by those of women who they said were less knowledgeable, more emotional, less stable and constituted a threat to our Republic. While women are about ten points more likely to vote Democrat, it is a gross oversimplification to say that they have "replaced" male voters.
Now, the argument goes that Hispanics and Latinos coming in over the southern border will become automatic Democratic votes changing the face of American politics.
But this view is just wrong. The 2020 election proves the exact opposite. The Republican share of the Latino vote increased from about 28% to 34% and led the GOP to victory in the swing state of Florida and cemented their hold on Texas.
Asian-Americans, likewise, swung sharply toward the Republican Party in 2020 (that's why the Biden Administration tries to hype fear of anti-Asian hate crimes, to use it to whip them back into line).
Hispanic voters have learned, firsthand, what socialism, corruption and leniency toward drug dealers leads to. When they see and hear radical leftists demeaning America's heroes — who they have long themselves admired — like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, they know what crazy radical policies will follow.
The American electorate is not linear. You can't just assign voter blocks to different ideologies and assume that they will fall in line. Blacks and Jews, for the most part, have been consistently Democratic, but even here, the GOP's share of the African-American vote has risen from 5% in 2012 to 9% in 2016 to 12% in 2020 and the Orthodox, who are a third of all Jews, are almost solidly Republican these days.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is attacking Carlson as racist. He's not. He's just wrong.
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Dick Morris, who served as adviser to former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and former President Clinton, is the author of 16 books, including his latest, Screwed and Here Come the Black Helicopters.