I largely agree with syn’s post above. The current leadership in the GOP doesn’t so much write off minorities as abandon many of the core economic conservative values. Attempts to include minorities range from including blacks in the highest administrative offices to cheap rank pandering to the lowest common denominator. As for high level appointments, there’s nothing wrong with it, and one may have expected a better response from blacks, for example. But how meanigful has this outreach been? Many blacks have simply repudiated these gestures as window dressing, or disgracefully labeled Rice and Powell “house negroes” or “Oreos” or on the other hand, promoting catastrophic open borders policies which pander to Hispanics invaders in the most cynical manner have also failed on every level. This disaster may have attracted a few Latino votes, but at what cost? We’ve encouraged lawlessness, encouraged millions more to storm our borders, and probably secured a pipeline of millions of leftist minions who will buy into the Marxist politics of grievance theater for generations.
An excellent point is made by Johnson above that appealing to the independent and enterprising fiber in many minorities would go much further than hollow, cynical, and feckless rudderless appeals.
