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The larger point, a guess, is that Begala's obsessive reliance upon 1980s politics to inform his entire electoral (and probably political) worldview is telling.
I've seen it argued many times that indeed the demographics are changing and signalling long-term electoral shifts in the Democrats' favor.
I take Begala's point, but he seems so enmeshed in his trench (forgive the mixed metaphor--web of trenches, maybe?), that he can't be relied upon to offer clear analysis.
Moreover, it's rank cowardice to accept that state of affairs if it means a coalition beholden to racists (at bottom, not in general).
The Republicans are beholden to their wackos and we do not want that.
But if we must, in fact, embrace wackos, let them be our wackos. Let them be bomb-throwing Weathermen, I say.
(I'm not speaking literally, btw, so please don't anybody come along and say: AHA!--you admit it!! Obama's with the terrorists. That is not it at all. That is not what I meant at all.)