Judging by post-election cable news analysis, Democrats appear determined to lose every presidential election for years to come.
The party must be deeply remorseful that Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump despite spending more than $1 billion and garnering support from celebrities and billionaires. Democrats should ask how someone who has been called a fascist, racist, and Nazi sympathizer was able to garner support from such a diverse group of voters.
If progressives had any sense at all, they would listen to what people have to say instead of projecting their own prejudices onto the millions of Americans they don't know and don't understand. will learn.
Instead of righting their wrongs, Democrats and their cable news allies continue to focus on identity politics that voters rejected. Some analysts claim to know why Trump won, but their explanations ignore issues such as the economy, inflation, crime and immigration.
No, it is said that the reason can be summed up in one word: whiteness.
MSNBC Contributor Eddie Glaude made this claim In a recent election postmortem. The Princeton University professor argued with fierce passion and conviction that he saw no other explanation. Although he never defined “whiteness,” he was convinced that it was what moved the masses.
I shared his video on social media and told him he sounded more like a religious cleric than a political analyst. He is not alone in this kind of rhetoric. Although progressives have become more secular in the past few decades, they still display religious impulses. Their discourse on “whiteness” reflects their views on original sin. They have race-related “prophets” large and small, eager to evangelize unbelievers on topics such as “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” and “white supremacy.” They view their opponents with disdain, as seen in their criticism of Latino voters who jumped on the Trump train.
They see unbelievers not as people to be persuaded, but as sinners to be saved.
This obsession with “whiteness” is not only simplistic, it also fuels racial tensions that the left is incapable of addressing. One year ago, a black Christian woman caused a controversy When she told a room full of white women in the evangelical community that we “must break away from whiteness,” she described it as rooted in plunder, theft, slavery, and genocide. I'm not a pastor, but I know the Bible well enough to understand that no group, regardless of race, ethnicity, or nationality, has a monopoly on sin.
I remember thinking then, as now, that the nation would throw a fit if white commentators blamed “blackness” for voters' choices in this election. Conservatives argue that the root of “blackness” lies in self-destruction, and that broken families are shunned and shamed, but not celebrated as prophetic truth-tellers.
For this reason, fairness is an important element of healthy public debate. Honest people should apply the same standards to friends and adversaries. Furthermore, the way we talk about other groups is how we should expect others to talk about us.
This principle is bipartisan and non-ideological. If white conservatives need extra therapy sessions because they criticize black liberals for valid reasons, why not write a headline labeling angry white men black liberals? there is no. the scariest people in america.
Those who promote identity politics are cancerous tumors for our body politics. Not only do they diminish Americans to their unchanging characteristics, they also create a perfect breeding ground for extremist views. Simply put, if you “sow” Robin DiAngelo, you can “reap” David Duke.
This is not limited to white people. Rejecting moderation almost always leads to radicalism.
Imagine a 17-year-old black boy watching his parents go on a civil rights march to protest racial discrimination in Birmingham, Alabama in 1964. Having learned about the First Amendment in school, he believes law enforcement officers will respect parents and that their complaints will be heard by the authorities they choose.
But when they turned on the TV that night, they saw footage of them being hosed down by police, attacked by dogs, and hit in the head with clubs. The teenage boy was drawn to the more militant stance of the Black Panthers after seeing how white authorities treated his parents, Christians who wore Sunday clothes. No one should be surprised either.
The same principle applies today. Young white men are told that they are the cause of all of this country's problems and are constantly portrayed as racists who only care about staying in power. They have seen how every white conservative, from George W. Bush to Mitt Romney, has been called a racist or compared to a Nazi at some point.
They see how perfectly ordinary academics can get rich promoting seminars on “white fragility” and “white rage.” Most people aren't as fixated on race as TV liberals, but those who are ripe for selection as white identitarians who affirm both race and gender and don't attack them because of their origins. There are some too.
The left doesn't want to hear that analysis, but that doesn't make it any less true. When you open the door to the demons of identity, you never know what will come through that portal. If progressives had any sense at all, they would listen to what people have to say instead of projecting their own prejudices onto millions of Americans they don't know, have never met, or can't understand. You will learn that.
Democrats have a choice. They can accept the fact that their Radicalism about race, gender, and identity continues to alienate voters and blame “white people” and bigotry for defeats.
This may be one of the last elections in which their foolish theory is taken seriously. donald trump earned Latino men received about 55% of the vote, an increase of about 20 points from 2020. Although support among black men did not increase significantly nationally, there were regional differences in his support. For example, approximately 25% of black men in Pennsylvania I voted For Trump. If the Democratic Party does not reflect honestly, the “white supremacists” that the right criticizes will be more diverse than their own party.
