A True Progressive Looks At The Election Results

While we wait for final results in the race for President, other interesting data from the voting have begun to emerge.

For example, NBC has come out with an exit poll of voters, that breaks down the Biden/Trump vote by demographic factors like age, sex and race. You might wonder how to do an exit poll in these days where well more than half the vote arrives either early or by mail; but NBC claims that they have accounted for that:

The exit poll also includes interviews with early in-person voters and a telephone poll is conducted for absentee voters.

Of course this exit poll seems to have overestimated the Biden vote similarly to most of the pre-election polls. (They have the overall vote at about 53/46 in favor of Biden; actual is more like 51/48.)

With those caveats, this poll has some very interesting information in the category of results by race, ethnicity and sex. Most notably, the poll estimates that 18% of black men, and 8% of black women voted for Trump. Thus the black male vote has gone from 5% for McCain in 2008, to 11% for Romney in 2012, to 13% for Trump in 2016, to 18% for Trump just now. The black female vote for Trump was substantially less at 8%, but still represented a large increase from on 3/4% in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Trump also scored some notable gains among Hispanics, particularly men. According to this exit poll, Trump won 38% of Hispanic men and 34% of Hispanic women, compared to 34% of Hispanic men and 30% of Hispanic women for McCain in 2008.

So how would you look at this if you were a true progressive? Let’s check in with New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow on November 4:

All of this to me points to the power of the white patriarchy and the coattail it has of those who depend on it or aspire to it. It reaches across gender and sexual orientation and even race. Trump’s brash, privileged chest trumping and alpha-male dismissiveness and in-your-face rudeness are aspirational to some men and appealing to some women. Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with the oppressors, and will aspire to power by proximity.

Yes, it’s that all-pervasive “power of the white patriarchy.” And by the way, don’t think that you can get out from under you status as “white patriarchy” and “oppressor” by voting for Biden. That vote is just one Our Father in your lifetime of atonement for your original sin. Meanwhile Blow himself, sitting in his perch as New York Times regular columnist, designates himself as one of the “oppressed.” Right.

Well, Mr. Blow, maybe an increasing number of black people are tired of your patronizing view that they are incapable of making it by their own efforts, and that they need to live off claims of victim status. Maybe some black people are ready to insist that they be treated as grown-ups.

If this thing catches on, the break-up of the Democratic coalition could occur with remarkable swiftness. The truth is that if blacks look at their real self-interest, they will quickly realize that they have little common cause with gentry leftists who want to triple the price of electricity and gasoline and who fight to keep poor kids trapped in bad public schools.