Posted on February 25, 2025

Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic Nomination

Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, February 25, 2025


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If Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) did not exist, American Renaissance would have to invent her. She represents the most Democratic district in Texas; only 20 percent of her constituents are white. She can barely contain her contempt for the historic American nation, with her hatred matched only by her self-love. She is emerging as a major Democrat leader. Let there be many more just like her.

Steve Sailer, in a 2009 experiment in “Machiavellian political strategizing,” said that a corollary to the Sailer Strategy of attracting more white voters to the GOP should be designating the Democrats as the “black party.”

Republicans can hurry along the coming Democratic train wreck by, for example, lauding blacks as the “moral core” of the Democratic Party. Respectfully point out that the Democratic Party is the rightful agent for the assertion of African-American racial interests, and that advancing black interests is central to the nature of the Democratic Party. Note that, while individual blacks wishing to vote for the good of the country are more than welcome in the GOP, black racial activists have their natural home in the Democratic Party. That’s what the Democrats are there for.

Don’t argue it. Just treat it as a given.

Moreover, Republican rhetoric should encourage feelings of ownership among blacks toward their Democratic Party. It’s not all that hard to get blacks to feel that they morally deserve something, such as, for example, predominance in the Democratic Party. African-Americans are good at feeling that others owe them deference.

This strategy may have worked in 2024. Kamala Harris was a DEI vice president and a DEI candidate. In 2020, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn wanted a black woman vice president. Picking Kamala Harris, said Rep. Clyburn, was a sign that the Democrats were not taking blacks for granted. There was no “Machiavellian strategy” to get the Democrats to be the black party. They did it themselves.

Now, James Clyburn may be doing it again, at least according to Internet gossip.

There was no follow-up reporting, but Rep. Crockett has indisputably become a Democratic star since the 2024 election. She appears on cable news attacking the Trump Administration, and she has a real constituency: those who want unapologetic defense of DEI from a black woman.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Credit Image: © Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Press Wire)

The Democrats can’t decide why they lost the last election. Pete Buttigieg, for example, recently said that the way Democrats talk about diversity is what creates Trump Republicans. In response, The View’s Sunny Hostin said that Mr. Buttigieg was “tone deaf . . . because what happens is from 1776 to 1965, you have basically white men in charge of everything, right?” She went on:

Women, people of color, we’re left out of just equality, equality of opportunity, that sort of thing. And I think when that equality stops popping up in terms of diversity programs, equality now feels like oppression to those people who were at the top of the ladder, not necessarily because of their merit but because of their identity, right?

Rep. Crockett is ideally suited to carry this messaage. In her most recent viral moment, she said she is rooting for Canada and Mexico against the United States.

Some of her other greatest hits include complaining about “coddling for white boys” and “mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder.” She also thinks the President is a “white supremacist.”

When Miss Crockett erupted in a Congressional hearing and yelled that she would not calm down, Rep. Majorie Taylor-Greene was among those unsuccessfully trying to end her tirade. In response, Miss Crockett called her a racist.

Miss Crockett has strange ideas about crime.

In a hearing on DEI, Rep. Crockett claimed whites have never been oppressed in the United States:

There has been no oppression for the White man in this country. . . . So yeah, we are going to sit here and be offended when you want to sit here and act like . . . and don’t let it escape you that it is White men on this side of the aisle telling us, people-of-color on this side of the aisle that y’all are the ones being oppressed, that y’all are the ones that are being harmed. That’s not the definition of oppression. You tell me the prolonged, cruel or unjust treatment that you’ve had and we can have a conversation.

Miss Crockett has high self-esteem.

Republican voters, she says, are less educated and do not want to read. They support President Trump because they simply do not “understand” his policies, and therefore need education.

All this makes her a Democratic paragon in the Age of Trump. She has a secure district, and will never have to trim her sails. She is a source of juicy quotes for reporters looking for an elected official to call Donald Trump and his voters racist. She is also a comfort for Democrats who love it when a black woman affirms what they want to believe.

In a column after the election, Scott Greer suggested Miss Crockett could be one of those dark horse candidates that routs the field — not because she is a good candidate or because she can win. Instead, she speaks for those who think the Democrats did nothing wrong and that dialing up the heat on racist, sexist white people will be a winning approach. Progressives think the problem with Kamala Harris was that she tried to appeal to moderate Republicans by such things as going on tour with Liz Cheney.

Let us hope that most Democrats come to believe this. It is good if the implicit identity politics in the United States becomes explicit. Anti-white animus is already mainstream, but whites must understand that they have no place in a leftist coalition, no matter how much they grovel. They must be forced to understand that they have to take their own side, or leave politics altogether. White advocates should hope Miss Crockett’s rise continues.

About Gregory Hood

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Mr. Hood is a staff writer for American Renaissance. He has been active in conservative groups in the US. You can follow him on Gab.