Powerline’s “Big Trunk” made the point a bit more clear in his post The 3 percent solution:
When the electorate rejected George McGovern in 1972 and Walter Mondale in 1984, it did so on each occasion by a margin of roughly 20 percent. The McGovern/Mondale/Kerry view of the United States has made enormous inroads in the past twenty years. It is less than three percent short of a majority and the trendline seems to be moving in its favor. Shouldn’t we be asking what we need to do to roll it back before it crosses over to majority status?
Look closely at that map again and consider what over six decades of public school indoctrination in Leftism has done to the population of this country. What can we do to roll it back? Because, in the main, it appears that the best we’ve been able to accomplish has been a holding action.
Remember: Statist vs. Statist-lite.