Philadelphia polls closed at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. By 8:30 p.m., the Philadelphia Inquirer declared Democrat Cherelle Parker won the mayoral election. Parker defeated Republican David Oh, a Korean American who was vying to become the city’s first Republican mayor since before the thermonuclear bomb was tested. Parker will become the city’s first female mayor. It was yet another quick and embarrassing defeat for the city’s Republican Party, an organization that really exists in name only and has no meaningful impact on the party’s politics.
While Parker’s victory was expected, as anyone who even remotely entertained the idea that Oh had a realistic chance was not grounded in reality, it also rebuts the idea behind the importance of “diversity” and “representation.” While Parker is black and a racial minority in the country (though not in the city of Philadelphia), if people legitimately supported this notion, then Oh would have been elected because there had never been an Asian American mayor in the city’s history before. Diversity only seems to matter when Democrats can weaponize it to their advantage for political purposes.
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Consider the history. For years, Democrats have lauded the need for diversity in political arenas and demanded that racial minorities start getting “seats at the table.” It’s something the Left routinely weaponized against conservatives and Republicans. However, in reality, as many people (myself included) have claimed for years, this was merely political propaganda meant to create an aggrieved social class and help sway public opinion and political power and influence.
Nevertheless, diversity and party affiliation aside, Parker does seem to be (at least from her political platform) a welcome relief from the eight long years of the city’s suffering under the disastrous progressive leadership of Mayor Jim Kenney. Parker has emphatically stated she supports a return to law and order, improving schools, and many commonsense tactics that conservative Republicans have championed for years.
Hopefully Parker will keep her campaign promises and do the things necessary to fix the city. The people of Philadelphia need her help and are counting on her to restore common sense to the city. Here’s hoping she will be the politician she was on the campaign trail instead of just a political production created to get the votes necessary to become mayor of Philadelphia.
But, if not, the city’s voters will unfortunately just elect another Democrat in eight years. And by then, the results will probably only take 20 minutes to become official.