The Democrats can’t say they weren’t warned. In 2016, “the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em,” said Steve Bannon, then the White House chief strategist early in Donald Trump’s first term as president. “If the left is focused , and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.
” Seven years later, in becoming only the second president after Grover Cleveland to win a second term after being ousted from the White House, the concept of “demographic destiny” – the theory would naturally become the dominant political force in the United States as the country became steadily more multicultural. The exit polls suggest there was a three-point swing to , the biracial daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, among white voters. However, this was more than offset by a 13-point swing to Trump among Hispanics, a 12-point swing from “others” and a five-point swing among Asian-American voters.
Signature policies of the Trump campaign such as cracking down on illegal immigration were branded racist by some Democrats. The Republican candidate was also repeatedly accused of invoking racial stereotypes and stoking prejudice, most notoriously when accusing Haitian immigrants in Ohio of eating house pets. During a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York days before the vote, made disparaging remarks about Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and black people.
Some suggested Trump had made a mistake in choosing to shore up his white, working-class .