My lukewarm take is that I think stereotypical “Berniebros” are extremely stupid on principle for wanting to run under the label of any kind of socialism in the United States, but I think that the stereotypical liberal focus on “identity politics” is electorally terrible even though identity is an essential way of understanding society. That makes sense right? Like, my stance boils down to “America is unequivocally racist but calling people racist doesn’t make them vote for you because you alienate the racists, who’ll never vote Democrat anyways, AND the squishy moderates who think that racism is bad but conflict is even worse.” Democrats simply don’t have the numbers nationwide where we can afford to alienate all or even some of those squishy moderates.
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My lukewarm take is that I think stereotypical “Berniebros” are extremely stupid on principle for wanting to run under the label of any kind of socialism in the United States, but I think that the stereotypical liberal focus on “identity politics” is electorally terrible even though identity is an essential way of understanding society. That makes sense right? Like, my stance boils down to “America is unequivocally racist but calling people racist doesn’t make them vote for you because you alienate the racists, who’ll never vote Democrat anyways, AND the squishy moderates who think that racism is bad but conflict is even worse.” Democrats simply don’t have the numbers nationwide where we can afford to alienate all or even some of those squishy moderates.