Demographic projections of a majority-minority America fueled populist backlash politics

Evidence

Trump dangled before the electorate studies that project that people of color will outnumber whites by 204413 and that over half (50.2 percent) of the babies born in the United States today are minorities, and he inflamed the ever-present fear that foreigners are stealing our jobs. As a cure for these supposed ills, Trump’s campaign offered to a primed and ready audience a cocktail of nativism, scapegoating, and racism; his campaign met with resounding success and helped polarize the nation along the very lines that colored his stump speeches. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Selod’s work on how demographic anxiety drives surveillance and racialization of Muslim and Latinx Americans. — connects to: America will become majority nonwhite by 2045 — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1137; I will then consider the demographic factors of fertility rates, age distribution, and migration. Much like conversion, white nationalists view high Muslim fertility rates as a form of jihad. White nationalists use violent rhetoric such as ‘literal baby boom’ (Steyn 2008, xviii) and ‘war of the wombs’ (Kilpatrick 2106, 131) to paint Muslim motherhood as weapon wielded against Western society. This concept of ‘baby jihad’ objectifies Muslim women as baby-producing machines. In turn, these babies will bring about the ruin of Western society through stealth jihad to implement Sharia law, amongst other things such as genital mutilation, rapes, and persecution of Christians. These fears are exacerbated by an aging European population in contrast to a young Muslim population. Finally, migration is viewed as another type of demographic weapon. White nationalists write of the ‘hijra’ as a form of stealth jihad (Corcoarn 2105b), a ‘Trojan horse’ (Solomon and Al Maqdisi 2009) to alter the demographic make-up of non-Muslim countries and implement Sharia law.; Pluralism shifts integration burden to politics, fueling populist backlash among the disadvantaged — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 77 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 63

Broader Connections

• America will become majority nonwhite by 2045 #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1137
• I will then consider the demographic factors of fertility rates, age distribution, and migration. Much like conversion, white nationalists view high Muslim fertility rates as a form of jihad.… #complicates (0.55)