If they hadn’t, they could have made inroads with the Latinx population.” Patterson of the Boston Globe wrote in 2020, adding that they “are paying a stiff price for defaming immigrants. “Republicans are sitting on a demographic time bomb of their own making,” Thomas E. “There’s not a single demographic megatrend that favors Republicans,” Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Axios declared in 2019.
It wasn’t that long ago that some political pundits believed that America’s growing ethnic and racial diversity would put the conservative movement on the path to extinction.