Want to know why the White Supremacist QAnon Party is working feverishly to suppress the vote, convince its base that elections are fraudulent, and practice how to overturn future elections?
It’s the census, stupid.
The White Supremacist QAnon Party is an openly racist and politically regressive organization that is overwhelmingly (89%) white. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 was the reaction of white America to the election of Barack Obama. There is solid data that fear of white displacement was the most common link across Trump voters.
Just look at the White Supremacist QAnon Party’s version of reality:
Obama was born in Africa.
Mexicans are rapists and criminals.
The coronavirus was inflicted upon us by the Chinese.
The massive Black Lives Matter protests were violent riots.
Seattle and Portland, Oregon are Violent Anarchy Zones.
Immigrants are responsible for the Delta variant surge.
The Democratic “Squad” in Congress (all women of color) are communists.
The Democrats are purposefully flooding the country with non-white people from shithold countries. Tucker Carlson, the spokesman for the party, claims that the Democrats want more immigrants because they view them as “more obedient voters from the Third World,” and that “in order to win and maintain power, Democrats plan to change the population of the country” because they have been unable to gain the support of “real Americans.”
Derek Chauvin was convicxted, according to Carlson, because his jury was intimidated: “If they continue to happen, decent, product [read: white] people will leave. The country as we know it will be over. So we must stop this current insanity. It’s an attack on civilization [read: white civilization].”
There is no way the White Supremacist QAnon Party can lose a legitimate election.
White votes are more valid than non-white votes. As a White Supremacist QAnon Party member of Arizona house put it, “Everybody shouldn’t be voting. Not everybody wants to vote, and if someone is uninterested in voting, that probably means that they’re totally uninformed on the issued. Quantity is important, but we have to look at the quality [read” whiteness] of votes, as well.”
Conversely, look at the 2020 vote through the racial lens. Biden won only 42% of the white vote, but he won by 8 million votes nationwide because he captured 90% of black voters, 63% of Asians, and 59% of Hispanics.
Another big event that happened in 2020 was the U.S. census, and today the government released a summary of the data. It’s really bad news for the White Supremacist QAnon Party:
For the first time since first census, taken in 1790, the absolute number of white Americans SHRUNK—from 223.6 mlllion in 2010 to 204.3 million.
The non-Hispanic white population declined by 2.6% in the last decade. White people now account for 58% of our population. They were 69% of the population ten years ago.
The African-American population grew 5.6 percent since 2010.
The Hispanic population grew by 23% over the last ten years. That’s a huge increase in only a decade.
The Asian population grew by 35% in the last decade. You read that right: 38%--a massive shift.
Thirty-six percent of American adults are non-white, a 25% increase in the past ten years.
Forty-seven percent of American children are non-white, a 35% increase.
The country is becoming more urban. Population growth was most pronounced in larger counties. As a group, small counties lost population.
A political party that had an actual political program and wanted to see it implemented would respond to these data by expanding the diversity of its base and thereby ensuring its future within our democratic framework.
A political party that is a cult devoted to a single racist leader and that has no platform other than white supremacy would respond to these data by doubling down on authoritarianism, intimidating and delegitimizing people of color, rejecting the rule of law, suppressing the vote, and stealing elections.
Buckle up, everyone.