This is not good news for the Democrats. The Dems’ Coming Asian Voter Problem Has Arrived Ruy Teixeira, Substack Even in 2020, there were signs of defection in congressional races in California and in other local races. Like Hispanics, Asian voters... Read More ". . . . Even in 2020, there were signs of defection in congressional races in California and in other local races. Like Hispanics, Asian voters were concerned about public safety and rejected demands to defund the police. Asian voters in California, New York and Virginia were also upset by the Democrats' support for aggressive affirmative action policies that would be at their expense, since in gifted and talented high schools and in top-tier colleges, they were enrolled at percentages well above their percentage in the population and would be harmed by the imposition of the kind of quota systems Democrats were supporting. Partly in reaction to this, Asian neighborhoods in New York City swung by double digits toward Trump in 2020. In California, Asians, as well as Hispanics, played a large hand in the defeat of the affirmative action referendum, which lost by 57 to 43 percent. In 2021 and 2022, Democrats also suffered from defections among Asian-American voters. In Virginia's 2021 gubernatorial contest, victorious Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin got 44 percent of Asian votes. In that year's New York mayoral contest, Republicans also improved over their 2017 performance by 14 points in heavily Asian precincts. In 2022, Asian voter defection from the Democrats was more broad-based than in 2020. Nationwide the Democratic advantage among Asian voters declined 12 points relative to 2020. And there were abundant signs that Asian voters in many urban neighborhoods were slipping away from the Democrats. In New York City, the only precinct in Manhattan to vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin was in Chinatown. In Brooklyn and Queens, Zeldin outpaced Democrat Kathy Hochul in the heavily Chinese 47th and 49th Assembly Districts and 17th State Senate District in Brooklyn. Zeldin also won the 40th Assembly District based in Flushing, which is dominated by Chinese and Korean immigrants. . . . ."
I suppose it's not surprising. While Democratic outreach to the African-American and Hispanic communities is well known, I can't say I've noticed a similar outreach to the Asian community before COVID made Anti-Asian crime and rhetoric a more front page story. I can't claim to know the reasons why, and I'm sure there are many, but my guess on a couple of them are that Asian folks see the progressive movement to dumb down America as well as the push against merit based judgments and policies to be antithetical to what they consider important.
I think one of the two largest issues Democrats have is their push of affirmative action policies that really only benefit one ethnicity and their soft on crime policy (also immigration but that’s another subject entirely). They need to end all racially based laws and pushes including reparations and move to laws that prevent race from being considered in any way. Push to reform crime laws based on their severity and remove outdated laws. Crime laws need to be strengthened and then work on reforming incarceration where it actually helps people reform themselves instead of being a money making scheme for prison corporations that does more to train people to be better criminals than it does to train them to be better people.
