Going Democrat-Lite will make GOP a permanent minority

By Rob Miller

Published February 8, 2014 5:00am ET

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Going Democrat-Lite will make GOP a permanent minority — Spanish-language campaign signs promoting President Obama hang on the windows at Lechonera El Barrio Restaurant in Orlando, Fla., in October 2012. (AP Photo/Julie Fletcher) | Julie Fletcher

Democrats smirk that the muscle of the Hispanic vote is going to make them a permanent majority and make the Republicans extinct, while much of the GOP consultant class pontificates that the 2012 election was a message for the Republican to embrace amnesty and to drop any vestige of conservatism.

Peter Wehner’s recent piece in Commentary is fairly typical of the sort of pieces prophesying demographic doom. Are they right?

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