SELF-STYLED PROGRESSIVES REDISCOVER ASSIMILATION.

Two  Democrat operatives, I. H. López and Tony Gavito, suggest "This Is How Biden Should Approach the Latino Vote."  They have their pet projects to push, to be sure, although they also note something encouraging, particularly if it's New York's Times not memory-holing it.

Progressives commonly categorize Latinos as people of color, no doubt partly because progressive Latinos see the group that way and encourage others to do so as well. Certainly, we both once took that perspective for granted. Yet in our survey, only one in four Hispanics saw the group as people of color.

In contrast, the majority rejected this designation. They preferred to see Hispanics as a group integrating into the American mainstream, one not overly bound by racial constraints but instead able to get ahead through hard work.

The minority of Latinos who saw the group as people of color were more liberal in their views regarding government and the economy, and strongly preferred Democratic messages to the dog-whistle message. For the majority of Latinos, however, the standard Democratic frames tied or lost to the racial fear message.

Put another way, maybe it's past the time to let Student Affairs types get away with pushing their cultural poison into the general culture, let alone on campus.

I couldn't go to Wisconsin for Oktoberfest this year, but this message is as valid now as it was when I first posted it. "[G]ive these kids an America to buy into, and an America that buys into these kids, and we'll be OK."

First, though, maybe the Democrat court intellectuals ought buy into the idea of buying into America.