Indian Summer

Kamala’s (roughly) 1/4th black ancestry has gotten far more publicity than her half-Hindu heritage, but South Asians' rise to positions of power across the Anglosphere ought to be a big story.

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:

Crazy as it would have sounded in the 1980s, it’s now quite possible that America will have an Indian president before it has a Jewish president…even if Kamala loses.

In fact, the Kamala campaign’s rejection of the vice presidential candidacy of Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of crucial swing state Pennsylvania, for Tim Walz, the aging Teutonic governor of blue Minnesota, raises the possibility that America will never have a Jewish president. …

Especially now that the Democrats have a nonwhite replacement ethnicity—South Asians—who bring many of the same skills as Jews did, such as linguistic facility, verbal logic, and mathematical ability.

Of course, one reason that Kamala’s Hindu half isn’t attracting much attention is because she does not herself embody South Asians’ stereotypical strong suits. Kamala isn’t stupid—she passed the tough California bar exam on her second try, and she has so far obeyed her advisers’ suggestions that she not dispel her admirers’ fantasies about her by opening her mouth too much—but nobody has ever accused her of displaying a head for numbers, an articulate prose style, or an incisive grasp of logic.

Read the whole thing there.