The Democratic Party's demented race obsession is not going anywhere any time soon, even as it is clearly losing its political potency.
Democratic National Committee officials are reportedly worried about falling short of their “diversity goals,” which is a euphemism for the quotas of token minorities the party wants to use to boast about how diverse and inclusive they are. According to former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile, “I keep looking at these diversity goals in big states like New York, like California. And, for some reason, whether it’s the African American community, black community, the LGBTQ+ community, or Hispanic community, numbers continue to decrease.”
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This isn’t just the identity-obsessed whining of some Democratic strategists, though. The tokenization of minority communities is built into the DNC’s operations. According to Politico, “The DNC calculates its diversity goals using a complex formula that accounts for eligible voters from seven targeted groups: blacks, Latinos, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Indigenous Americans as well as those with disabilities, those who identify as LGBTQ and young voters, classified as 35 and under.”
In other words, the DNC treats minorities as numbers on a spreadsheet in order to hit token goals, and the only concern of DNC officials is that the spreadsheet isn’t to their liking. Now, they are blaming the Democratic Party losing its grip on black and Hispanic voters on the DNC not hitting its diversity quotas, as if putting more people into boxes based on their skin color or other irrelevant factors about their lives is supposed to guarantee that those people vote for Democrats.
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As it turns out, Democrats are losing ground among these groups even as their racial obsession grows more frantic and more pervasive in politics. Prominent politicians including President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) make personnel decisions based on elevating token minorities, and yet black and Hispanic voters are shifting out of the reliable Democratic Party tent and into a more competitive middle. Maybe, just maybe, they have individual concerns that include things like inflation and the economy and they aren’t obsessed with their own skin color the way the DNC is.
If Democrats think categorizing minorities and plugging them into spreadsheets is going to reverse the political shift that has been going on for years, they are fools. The tokenization of minorities by Democrats in order to divide the country and the electorate is failing, and we will be better off if the architects of this strategy are forced to reckon with their failure.