Once again, we see an academic elite who can only begin from a false premise that has been disproven time and time and time again. Yet they refuse to renounce that premise because it calls into question their intellectual value and integrity. They also don’t realize they have already lost it beyond reclamation. So they hang on, hoping we will all close our eyes and forget what we know is true.
This entire piece from the New York Times is written through the lens of a progressive academic trying to rationalize a political betrayal he didn’t see coming — because his worldview can’t conceive of Black, Latino, or Asian Americans choosing liberty over victimhood. To the author, Daniel Martinez HoSang, the shift of nonwhite voters to the right is not a repudiation of leftist ideology, but merely a reaction to economic vulnerability. In other words, they’re not truly conservative — they’re just confused or desperate.
How patronizing.
But if you listen to the voices in the article — not the professor interpreting them — a far clearer picture emerges:
- They’re tired of crime and open borders.
- They’re tired of handouts with strings while illegal immigrants get luxury hotel rooms.
- They’re tired of being told their identity requires allegiance to a political tribe.
- They’re tired of being used.
These voters aren’t confused. They’re wide awake. They’ve realized that the left’s promises of “equity” and “justice” have delivered nothing but social decay, economic stagnation, and ideological obedience. In short: they’ve seen what happens when Democrats run the show — and they want out.
This Isn’t About Policy Gaps. It’s About Values.
To a Yale political scientist, this shift is baffling — because he believes history bends inevitably toward progressivism. He calls Trump voters “fringe” and claims minority conservatives are being atomized by right-wing media. But the reality is much simpler: these Americans are voting their conscience, their experience, and their love of country.
They’re not leaving the left because it failed to hand out enough goodies. They’re leaving because they reject what the left has become:
- A movement obsessed with sexual ideology, racial essentialism, and bureaucratic power.
- A regime that punishes hard work and rewards lawbreaking.
- A culture that teaches children to hate their history and question their biology.
They’ve chosen the right not because they’ve been misled, but because the right now speaks for the forgotten man, the hardworking mom-and-pop, the neighborhood pastor, the legal immigrant, the small business owner, and the blue-collar tradesman.
In other words — the very backbone of America.
The Multiracial Right Is Not an Aberration — It’s a Correction
The American right isn’t perfect. But the voters in this article aren’t clamoring for perfection. They want stability, dignity, safety, prosperity — and freedom from elite condescension. What they’re rejecting is not “insufficient racial liberalism,” as HoSang would argue, but the entire patron-client system of identity politics.
They want to be treated as individuals, not demographic chess pieces. And for once, they’re acting like it.
The True Irony
The article ends by warning that Donald Trump is tearing down institutions — civil rights offices, welfare programs, DEI bureaucracies, etc. But for these voters, those institutions already failed them. What the professor calls “insurgency,” these Americans call hope.
That is the ultimate irony. The very party that once claimed to fight for the underdog now finds itself abandoned by the very people it claims to speak for. And its response? Not reflection. Not humility. But more propaganda, more gaslighting, and more policy prescriptions from ivory towers.
This isn’t a glitch in the system. It’s the system being corrected by the people who’ve had enough.
Final Word
The Democratic Party didn’t lose voters of color because it failed to redistribute enough wealth or amplify enough identities. It lost them because it lost the plot — the American plot. The plot that says you are responsible for your own destiny, you are the master of your fate, and no party, bureaucracy, or ideology owns your loyalty.
That’s what these voters understand.
And that’s what Yale professors never will.
Sources:
U.S. Census Bureau Data on Latino Population Growth (2022)
Pew Research Center on Religious Affiliation Trends Among Latinos (2021)
Exit Polling Data, 2020 & 2024 Presidential Elections (CNN, Edison Research)
Public statements and interviews quoted directly from New York Times article, Aug. 2025
