The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-22-2020, 02:08 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-21-2020, 01:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The most blatant expressions of identity politics are those of racist, reactionary white people who have contempt for anyone not white, straight, Christian, and similarly reactionary. Trump exploited that in the extreme. It worked once. The Democratic Party is much closer to being a Big Tent than is the Greedy Old Profiteers Party.

Enough white people have no use for that garbage that Trump could not get re-elected.

Trump didn't try to exploit it like you and the Democrats have been exploiting it that's for sure. It will be interesting to see where you rank as far as importance and how you are treated when identity politics take over the Democratic portion of the country.

How did they 'exploit' it?  By encouraging equality and human rights in participating in democracy?  That happens to be the arrow of progress.  That is what tends to happen in a crisis.  It is a feature, not a bug.

If you look at Trump's primarily white male enablers, he did exploit his tradition.  He did encourage the old values and in doing so support the values of his base.