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'Republican Party becoming marginalized in US body politics'

Friday, 15 January 2016 2:15 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 15 January 2016 2:16 AM ]

“African-Americans since the days of President Roosevelt, and especially President Lyndon Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, have been devoted Democratic voters,” American political analyst Myles Hoenig says.

The Republican Party is becoming marginalized in the US body politics, says Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

Hoenig made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on a statement by US Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul who said the Republican Party is turning into “the old white man’s party.”

He said Senator Paul “speaks as if he’s foretelling the future when in fact, it has been developing that way since the days of Ronald Reagan.”

“Although conservative women, of all ages, have supported the Republicans, the archetypical Republican has been the Archie Bunker, working class, once a Democrat, traditionalist, low education level. Today it extends to the more rural parts of America, where poverty is highest and quite ironically, federal assistance to the needy is greatest,” he added.

“Most of the demographic groups that Senator Paul hopes to attract have long been lost to the Democrats, but more telling, to independent parties, or non-affiliated,” he stated.

Hoenig said that “African-Americans since the days of President Roosevelt, and especially President Lyndon Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, have been devoted Democratic voters and with the ascension of Barack Obama in 2008, the mainstream black voter will likely remain in their camp.”

“Latinos are actually moving away from the Republican Party as of late. Even though President Obama is one of the worst presidents regarding deportations and breaking up of families, the younger Latinos, when registering, are going Democrat,” the activist noted.

“Younger voters who are flocking to Bernie Sanders are also more likely to go with independent parties, such as the Green Party. Sanders wants to ease the pain of student debt but Stein of the Green Party wants to eliminate it altogether. If the President can forgive bank debt Stein believes 40 million milennials ought to have their debt forgiven. The Republicans don’t even discuss it,” he pointed out.

“In all of the debates we have seen among the Republicans, the focus has all been either on foreign policy or tax breaks for the wealthy. Rand is correct when he says his party has all but ignored the vast majority of Americans’ concerns and the idea of an old, white man’s party is almost complete,” the analyst concluded.

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