Demographics is Destiny

Richard Hanania writes, commenting on recent election results:

Time to Retire "Demographics is Destiny"

Stop trying to engineer future politics through racial bean counting

The Economist recently ran a poll of various countries across the world on whether they prefer Trump or Harris. Here are the very funny results.

What are the implications here for conservatives? One might say that if you want America to become a country that values small government and individual liberty, you need to import groups like Turks, Nigerians, and Egyptians. We definitely need fewer people of Northern European descent.

That would obviously be a very stupid conclusion to draw from the data. But why exactly did third worlders prefer Trump while wealthier countries supported Harris? Is it because Nigerians are more pro-market than the Dutch? Of course not. Trump just has a cultural appeal to the third world masses, while repulsing populations that are better educated.

The point here is that people, especially those who are poor, mostly don’t develop political attitudes based on issues, whether they’re thinking about their own countries or other nations.

So people's votes are correlated with their ethnicity, but not necessarily along the racial lines that you might expect. That is what he deduces from the recent election.

Sometimes I think Hanania is trolling us. If conservatives want the USA to have American values, why would we import anyone?

He explains that Trump overperformed in all non-white groups. Okay, but is that a reason to import more non-whites?

Even if importing Turks, Nigerians, and Egyptians would produce more pro-liberty votes, they would still be changing America to something different, and there is no good reason for such a change. We already have people who believe in liberty.