Democrats are fond of telling us they’re looking for “the root cause” of every problem.  For instance, remember when Biden made Kamala the Border Czar?  She then supposedly set off to discover “the root cause” of the ongoing illegal alien invasion.  Kamala dismissed the most obvious reasons, like – Biden erased the borders, invited the invaders to come in, and then welcomed them with new clothes, telephones, welfare, free housing and medical care.  Instead, Kamala decided the root cause was dissatisfaction with conditions in their home countries, which then supposedly entitled them to feed off of Uncle Sucker.  That was simply misdirection.

The true root cause was much simpler.  Democrats require millions of illegal aliens to stay in power.  They have a problem, you see.  The picture you’re presented with by the media – of a nation evenly divided between evil, fascist, right-wing religious fanatics, and benevolent, progressive, socialists, who exist only to ensure the betterment of all mankind – is false.

Try as Democrats might to obscure the truth, American citizens, as a whole, are, and always have been, moderately conservative.  Until recently, even the leaders of the Democrat Party understood this.  After the 1968 election, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg published The Real Majority, which examined the demographics of the American electorate.

They concluded that, although there were extremes, on both the Left and the Right, the vast majority of voters, and thus the voters who swung elections, were in the middle.  They described the average voter as a 46 year old woman from Ohio.  The moral was that the Parties shouldn’t expend energy courting niche voters at the extremes of the spectrum, but rather concentrate on the middle.

That strategy worked, for Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Reagan, Clinton, the Bushes, and even for Obama.  Il Duce Obama ran as a moderate, in favor of a border wall and deporting illegal aliens, and against gay marriage. The answer was populism.  Donald Trump certainly got the message.

But somewhere along the way, the Democrats abandoned the middle strategy for identity politics.  They began to cater to every isolated niche, instead of to the Real Majority.  And even as they did so, they knew it was a mistake.  Remember, they sold Joe Biden to us as a “moderate.”  It was a lie, but they said it.  This past November, Spanberger in Virginia and Sherrill in New Jersey were called “moderates,” the fact that they voted 100% of the time with Nancy Pelosi notwithstanding.  They had to pretend to be moderate.

But now, the national Democrat Party is embracing pure insanity.  They revere Il Duce Obama, who deported millions of illegals, but vilify Trump, for deporting hundreds of thousands.  They support Soros funded prosecutors who refuse to enforce the law.  They increasingly justify resorts to violence, rioting, and open street warfare, in support of policies guaranteed to bankrupt the country, erode public safety, and eradicate personal freedoms.  But why?  What is the root cause of their insanity?

It’s really very simple.  When cornered, a wounded animal will fight desperately for survival.  And that’s where Democrats find themselves.  While their leadership moved hard Left, the electorate did not follow.  For years, they predicted that, “the browning of America,” a population consisting of fewer White voters and more voters from minority groups, would result in a permanent Democrat majority.   They were certain that, anyone with a Spanish surname would automatically and forever become a Democrat voter.  They miscalculated.

For years, Democrats, and many RINO Republicans, took for granted that legal Hispanic immigrants would naturally favor an influx of illegal aliens, and therefore punish any Party that favored controlling the borders.  That turned out to be wrong.  In 2024, Trump ran on a platform of closing the borders to illegals and deporting those who had entered.  A majority of Hispanic Americans supported him.  He even won Texas border counties that had voted Democrat for 100 years.

The Trump drive to deport illegals is a stake in the heart of the Democrat Party, which relies on counting illegal aliens in the census to maintain power in Congress.  That’s the “root cause” of their embrace of illegal immigration.  It also explains why Democrats fight so fiercely against requiring voter ID to vote.

You need an ID to drive, to buy a beer, to ride on a plane, or to register in a hotel.  Want FedEx to ship a package for you?  You better have an ID.  But Democrats say, “you want to choose the next president?  No ID is required.”  Are they advocating for a popular position?  Hardly.  More than 80% of Americans favor requiring ID to vote.  That figure includes 71% of Democrats.  80% of Americans agree on little else.  Republicans are trying to pass legislation to require ID for federal elections, but Democrats are against it.

Why can’t the overwhelming majority of Americans have what they want?  Because 213 Democrat House members and 47 Democrat Senators say no.  They’re desperate to maintain power.  It’s no coincidence that the only States Kamala Harris won in the 2024 election were States without voter ID laws.  As I said, Democrats need a large supply of illegal aliens to stay in power.  The illegals counted in the census help to determine the number of House seats each State gets.

Each member of the House of Representatives represents about 800,000 people.  An influx of 16,000,000 illegals equates to 20 House seats.  Conversely, if 8,000,000 illegals are deported, or choose to voluntarily leave between 2025 and 2030, which could happen, subtract 10 House seats from Democrat districts.  Add to this the population shifts that have occurred, with millions leaving Blue States for Red, and Democrats have a real problem.

Illegal alien removals aside, Blue States are expected to lose about 12 House seats in 2030.  Texas and Florida, each of which have gained 2 million residents, may gain at least three seats each.  Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah and Idaho also should gain a seat each.  The big losers?  California, New York, and Illinois.

On top of this, a group of Republican Attorneys General are suing to change the census rules to eliminate counting of illegal aliens.  If successful, that plus the Trump deportation efforts, could intensify Democrat House losses, which correspondingly result in Electoral College losses for Democrats.

That’s why resisting voter ID laws is so important to Democrats.  The detestable Chuck Schumer calls any voter ID requirement “Jim Crow 2.0.”  He should know too, because every Jim Crow law was enacted and enforced by Democrats, who frustrated every attempt to pass civil rights legislation for 100 years.  Nit wit Jamie Raskin is now trying to equate voter ID laws with unconstitutional poll taxes, another tactic perfected by Democrats like himself.

In the end, these new Democrat talking points won’t work.  Georgia voter ID laws were denounced by Democrats, even though, after they were enacted, more Black voters voted than ever before.  The truth is, where voter ID is required, free IDs are widely available, and even without an ID on election day, anyone can still vote, either by provisional ballot, or simply by signing an affidavit attesting that you are a citizen.

But there is a paradox for Democrats.  If they choose the logical long term solution, and allow passage of the voter ID laws that 81% of Americans support, they risk alienating their crazy leftist base that their foray into identity politics has stirred up.  A shift toward sanity would bring losses in the near term, and a temporary loss of power that they refuse to contemplate.

As a result, you can bet on more resistance, more violence, and even more discord.  Much of the tumult is also fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome.  When the Trump devil finally is gone, Democrats may bend to the inevitable and truly moderate.  Until then, however, we’re in for a bumpy ride.