Obamnesty, President Obama’s executive amnesty for millions of illegals, means the Democratic Party has finalized its divorce from the white working class.
The party of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson has relegated blue-collar working people, the brick and mortar that built a half-century of Democratic dominance from the New Deal to the Great Society, to the status of surplus labor.
The Obama cabal at the helm of the Democratic Party has replaced blue-collar working stiffs with a multicultural pastiche and techie entrepreneurs who rely on H1B visas and offshore programmers to satisfy venture capitalists’ demands for maximum ROI.
But now that blue-collar white ethnic voters have been effectively expelled from one of the nation’s two major political parties, will they flock to the other?
Not necessarily.
These are the facts:
The Republican Party is increasingly dependent on white working-class voters as the non-white segment of the electorate increases. These voters gave Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan landslide victories. On Nov. 4, white working-class men and women – 64 to 34 percent – for Republican House candidates, just as they did in 2010.
White working-class voters oppose increased immigration. They see Obamnesty flooding the country with cheap labor that competes for their jobs and threatens their livelihoods.
But these same working-class voters also oppose that other piece of the open-borders agenda, Obamatrade. Free trade agreements put working Americans in direct competition with cheap overseas labor and drive their wages down.
What this means is that Republicans don’t get the hoped-for political bounce by opposing Obamnesty when their support for Obamatrade convinces white working-class voters that the party is not on their side.
Ronald Reagan understood this, and when it came down to defending Americans working in semiconductor foundries and on automobile assembly lines, or sacrificing them to some utopian globalist theory, he told the free trader academics to take a walk and climb back in their ivory towers.
What’s remarkable is that now, at the same time the GOP is suing the president for usurping power with his Obamnesty declaration, party leaders are talking about giving the president even more power by granting him fast track authority to explicitly bypass Congress.
Under fast track, the president would sign and enter into so-called “free trade” agreements with foreign countries before Congress even saw them let alone voted on them. And when Congress finally had its blindfold removed, Congress would not be allowed to amend or change even one word of the deals Obama negotiated on his own.
The same Republicans who squawk about the president implementing cap-and-trade unilaterally through EPA regulations, who complain he picks and chooses which parts of Obamacare to implement, now want to give Obama the power to rewrite policies affecting energy and health care without congressional oversight.
And they do it in the name of an ideology foreign to these shores and foreign to the Republican Party. The truth is, steadfast conservatives oppose Obamatrade.
It’s time to send Congress a message: Stand up to Obama, stand for conservative principles, and stand by the working people who gave Republicans the majority.
