Opinion | Voters of color are shifting right. Are Democrats doomed?

Are so many voters of color becoming Republicans that U.S. politics is on the verge of a dramatic change? Maybe. The Financial Times’s John Burn-Murdoch wrote a thread on X last week that went viral, with charts showing increased Republican support with voters of color. He also published an article with the headline, “American politics is undergoing a racial realignment.” Burn-Murdoch isn’t the only person noticing these trends. And he’s right — something important is happening. In 2020, many more Latino Americans voted for Donald Trump (about 37 percent), compared with Mitt Romney (29 percent) eight years earlier. Twenty-five percent of Asian, Black and Latino voters combined backed Donald Trump in 2020, according to the left-leaning data firm Catalist, while 73 percent favored Joe Biden. That was a big increase from the 17 percent of voters of color who supported Romney in 2012, compared with 81 percent for Barack Obama. In the 2022 congressional elections, about 41 percent of Asian Americans voted for a Republican, up from 33 percent in 2020. And at least based on early polling in this year’s race between Biden and Trump, the only question is how many more voters of color will turn to the...