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Fox News
25-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
New York Times op-ed details how Democrats lost the non-White voters Obama gained
On Thursday, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Dr. Daniel Martinez HoSang, a professor of American studies and political science at Yale University, analyzing how the Democratic Party has lost a sizable portion of the non-White voters that former President Barack Obama brought into the party during his eight-year tenure. After researching and speaking with minority voters in typical Democratic strongholds like Milwaukee and the Bay Area of San Francisco, HoSang concluded that many of the non-White voters who now support President Donald Trump left the Democratic Party after becoming exhausted by identity politics and worsening economic conditions and crime. "The rightward drift of minority voters is not a story of just one election. It is a phenomenon years in the making, one that is reshaping the American political landscape. And to understand this movement, you must understand the transformations in the places they are happening," HoSang wrote. According to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, Trump has made up extensive ground with Hispanic voters, Black voters and Asian voters. The poll found that Trump significantly closed the gap on Hispanic voters, with 51% of them going to former Vice President Kamala Harris, and 48% going to Trump, a significant shift from the 2020 presidential election, when Trump fell behind with Hispanic voters to former President Joe Biden, 61%-36%. The president also made significant gains with Black and Asian voters, boosting his support among Black voters from 8% in 2020 to 15% in 2024, and among Asian voters from 30% to 40%. One former Obama voter HoSang spoke to, Orlando Owens from Milwaukee, said that he joined the Democratic Party because he was Black, but was eventually disaffected after becoming tired of the party's identity politics and empty promises. "When you get your food stamp review, you have to go give shot records, school records, blood type. You almost have to get absolutely naked to get a $50 increase. But you have people coming to this country who have no documentation who are staying in hotels for two years, for free? How is that right?" he questioned. "A lot of Black people have already heard the promises from the Democrats. And nothing was delivered." HoSang argued that the foreclosure crisis, opioid epidemic and chronic funding shortfalls have "created cracks in the bedrock of Democratic support" in cities like Milwaukee, and yet, "Democrats have largely doubled down on promising relatively modest policy reforms meant to speak to the interests of voters of color." "Disappointed in the party that they saw as presiding over these profound economic shifts, nonwhite voters found that the institutions where many of them found their political identities — churches, unions, clubs — have been in decline," HoSang reported. With many of these typical community pillars in decline, HoSang contends that voters of color today are being influenced by new forces, such as right-wing podcasts, influencers and social media. "The narrative emerging from this wave of new media is a compelling one to disaffected communities of color; it captures the very real struggles they experience and repackages them as proof that Democratic policies have failed them," he argued. In San Francisco's Bay Area, another issue has swayed their heavily Asian-American population away from the Democratic Party — crime. HoSang spoke with one Bay Area resident, Nancy Yu Law, who voiced her frustrations about the city's crime problem that has made running her four stores in Chinatown much more taxing. "I have four stores in Chinatown. My store was broken into two times. At my gift shop, they took money and they took one tablet. My boba shop was broken into and vandalized. In those years, it was really unsafe. A criminal is a criminal. Elected officials did not stand up to say that," she told HoSang. "It felt like there's nothing you can change in California, so we were all just complaining. When I ask my friends, what do you think of President Trump? They are all pretty satisfied." The Yale professor visited Turning Point's AmericaFest conference last December where he spoke with several young working-class Black women who were part of conservative influencer Candace Owen's Blexit movement. He noted that there was very little evidence of "buyer's remorse" when it came to Trump, and that many of the Blexit members he spoke with worldviews were "far more heterodox, guided less by ideological rigidities and more by their aspirations to build lives of dignity for themselves and their communities." In closing, HoSang felt that many of the minority voters he spoke with were politically driven by the realities that their racial communities face, such as collapsing social structures, economic uncertainties and "a sense that the status quo is untenable." "Absent a solution to these core problems, appealing to disaffected voters of color on their racial identity alone has rung hollow. Grappling with the complexity of their frustrations, anxieties and hopes will determine the next political chapter of this country," he concluded.
Washington Post
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Trump wins the ritual sacrifice of U-Va.'s president. So now what?
When University of Virginia students return to campus this fall, everything will be different. Their school president will be gone, sacrificed on the altar of the MAGA movement's campaign against the bogeyman of diversity, equity and inclusion. The school's DEI programs will be history. The selection process for the next president will be underway, as Trumpian forces transform one of America's premier universities into a place where students are no longer inculcated with identity politics, no longer infected with anti-Americanism, no longer submersed in leftist values.
Free Malaysia Today
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
PAS leader's controversial views on non-Malay PM not isolated, says analyst
Zaharudin Muhammad (left) was criticised by PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan (centre) for his 'insensitive' remarks but defended by central committee member Zuhdi Marzuki (right). PETALING JAYA : A PAS leader's controversial claim that a Malaysian of Chinese descent may one day assume the mantle of prime minister mirrors a sentiment held by senior party figures, particularly within the ulama faction. Awang Azman Pawi of Universiti Malaya said Sungai Buloh PAS chief Zaharudin Muhammad's views on the matter suggested the Islamic party's reliance on identity politics and its scepticism towards non-Malay appointments to key positions in government. He said PAS central committee member Zuhdi Marzuki's support for Zaharudin — who had included a photo of lieutenant-general Johnny Lim in his now-deleted Facebook post — showed that such views were latent in PAS. 'It reflects a school of thinking that is consistent among certain groups in the party who have long been indoctrinated with the 'Malay-Muslim struggle' framework, which is exclusive and suspicious of other parties, especially the non-Malays and DAP. Awang Azman Pawi. 'Zaharudin is known in PAS as one who delivers more hardline views. When figures like Zuhdi, who was once PAS's strategic director, lend their support, it shows that this ideology resonates among certain senior leaders. 'These leaders are not only influential, but are also involved in formulating the party's policies,' he told FMT. Awang Azman said the ulama faction was in the driver's seat in PAS, especially as the Syura Council, composed of religious scholars, remain the party's highest decision-making body. He added that PAS's stance and official statements on many controversial issues tend to lean more heavily towards narratives preferred by the religious scholars in PAS rather than the technocrats. 'Therefore, it can be said that Zaharudin's statement isn't an isolated case but reflects an ideology that has long developed in PAS,' said Awang Azman. On June 24, Zaharudin courted controversy by uploading a post on Facebook speculating that Malaysia may have its first Chinese prime minister in the next 30 to 40 years. The comment was made after Lim became the first Malaysian of Chinese descent to be made a three-star general in the army. PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan publicly condemned the post, saying it went against the party's stance. He also warned that disciplinary action will be taken against members who engaged in insensitive behaviour. However, Zuhdi came to Zaharudin's defence, blaming DAP for allegedly 'playing on sensitivities' and creating controversy out of the issue. To date, no other leader has openly criticised Zaharudin, son-in-law of PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, on the matter. Ulama or technocrat, PAS ideologically unified Despite the divide between the dominant ulamas and the technocrats, Awang Azman and Universiti Sains Malaysia's Azmil Tayeb said both factions were ideologically unified and coherent, with differences related more to their approach. Azmil Tayeb. Azmil said PAS was more than just a political party. He said it was a movement rooted in ideological indoctrination sustained through regular 'usrah' (small study group) sessions, and other similar activities. 'It doesn't matter which faction one belongs to because they all subscribe to the same ideology and go through similar indoctrination programmes. It's just that some leaders have no qualms about airing them publicly while others prefer to keep them private. 'The conservative faction has had full control of the party since 2015. There's no worry of a divide within the party, especially between the ulama and technocrat factions.' Awang Azman said the likes of Takiyuddin and PAS vice-president Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar were key to the party's external strategies and interethnic image for the sake of its political survival at the national level. He said the ulamas were more hardline in their religious narratives, perceiving non-Muslim government appointments to key posts as 'symbolic threats' to Malay-Muslim power. 'The technocrats meanwhile understand that, in a multiethnic democratic system, such an approach can tarnish PAS's national image. But PAS is ideologically consistent in championing Islamic values in national policies and our way of life. 'Therefore, their basic ideology is the same, but their approaches are different.'
Fox News
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Rep. Wesley Hunt: Our Service Members Know We Have A Commander-in-chief Who Respects & Understands The Military
Texas Republican Congressman Wesley Hunt joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to explain why GOP-backed policies are popular with voters right now in part because they are not driven by identity politics. 'As an American and as a rational human being, and I think I talked about to give my one of my favorite stories this year I was going to the White House when President Trump was signing the bill that did not allow biological men to compete against biological women. And in that in ceremony he goes, I can't believe I'm signing this but I guess all common sense is not so common So not just as a conservative, but as a human being with simple common sense That's what I represent. And I represent 77 million people that voted for President Trump, and those people came from all walks of life. There are Black people, White people, Hispanic people, Asian people, you name it. And so the fact that our party isn't playing identity politics slaps the left right in the face and they can't handle it. And I love being the harbinger of that message.' Fox News Podcasts Presents: Great Americans With Wesley Hunt Rep. Hunt and Jimmy also talk about why the U.S. Army surpassed its fiscal year 2025 recruiting goals four months ahead of schedule. Listen to the podcast to hear what else they talked about!
Bloomberg
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Britain's Labour Party Needs to Listen to Its Social Conscience
Progressives on both sides of the English-speaking Atlantic have focused much of their energy and attention on championing minority rights and indulging in identity politics. Standing up for groups who've suffered historic discrimination is laudable; removing barriers to Black employment and giving gay people the right to marry are hard-fought achievements. Transgender people deserve protections too, with trade-offs necessary given the clashes of biological sex and gender ideology. But whether by preference or distracted by such concerns, social evils which used to fire up the liberal-left conscience — class inequality, lack of economic opportunity and cohesive societies — have been in danger of being overlooked or even downgraded. In the UK, a horrific, decades-long scandal of grooming and rape gangs of mainly Pakistani Muslim men who preyed on young white women has revealed the pitfalls of this lopsided approach.
