pjmedia.com By Rick Moran
Are demographics really destiny? The 19th-century philosopher Auguste Comte, credited with the aphorism, emphasized that population trends are the most reliable predictors of a country’s long-term trajectory. Comte actually said “demography” was destiny, which makes more sense, but the idea that a nation’s future can be predicted by figuring out where people are moving is still a solid theory.
In 2002, Democrats John Judis and Ruy Teixeira wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority, which significantly revived the “demography is destiny” argument. They proposed that growing minority populations and professional classes would create an inevitable advantage for the Democratic Party — a thesis that has been a central point of debate in U.S. politics for over two decades.
It was debatable until the elections of 2020 and 2024, when millions of black males, Hispanic males, and younger white males abandoned the party that had done nothing for them and dipped a toe into Republican waters when Donald Trump ran for president…
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