For at least the past decade, the Democratic Party has adopted identity politics as both their recruitment strategy and rallying cry. Rather than try to appeal to all Americans, they’ve focused on the politics of grievance; trying to convince as many demographics as possible (except “straight white men”) that the “system” is against them. Usually, the demographics have to do with gender (but only women), religion (but only Muslims), nationality, ethnicity, immigration status (preferably illegal), or sexual orientation (except straight).
Naturally, dividing people up into groups of “oppressed” demographics only allows grievances (both real and imagined, but mainly imagined) to multiply. Identity politics always descends into an “oppression Olympics” where one group tries to out-whine the other. While “women” may be an “oppressed” group to the social justice warriors, they’re not as oppressed as black women. And as oppressed as black women are in their eyes – they’re not as oppressed as black disabled women. And what about black wheelchair-bound mute transgender poor Muslim women?
I’m exaggerating a bit now, but it really does never end.
The left-wing publication Vox has a great article out explaining how the Democratic Party is so fragmented today especially when they’re so unified in opposition to Donald Trump, and it has to do with one thing; race. The article’s author Seth Masket explained that at a recent DNC meeting the party passed a number of reform measures, including a controversial proposal to reduce the power of super-delegates.
What do Democrats fight about when they’re just fighting among themselves? The same thing the country fights about: race. @smotus explains: https://t.co/v6KqMEGap1
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 27, 2018
As you may remember, super-delegates overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton to be the Party nominee in 2016, leading many Dems to claim the system was rigged in favor of establishment candidates (and they’re right). And the result? As Masket writes, “quite a few DNC members were upset with this proposal. I’m painting with rather broad strokes here, but it was African-American DNC members who were the strongest opponents of the proposal. Throughout the year, members of the Congressional Black Caucus — basically all of whom are Democratic superdelegates — and other African-American party leaders expressed strong concerns that they were being, in their words, disenfranchised.”
In their words, they didn’t see the need to “give up their floor voting rights to appease the concerns of a largely white and young group of progressives.” How nice. One member compared the situation to “a runaway slave voting for the Fugitive Slave Act.”
Most conservatives are used to being branded “racist” for saying anything a liberal disagrees with – but who knew that liberals were so quick to dish out the label on their own? It’s no wonder young white men (and white voters at large) are fleeing the Democrat Party.
As we’ve reported previously, “While millennials still prefer the Democratic Party over the Republicans, that support is tanking. In just two years, it dropped sharply from 55% to 46%.” And where did they go? Of the nine percentage point decline, two-thirds, or six percentage points, moved to the Right. When it comes to white male millennials, Democrats polled in that Demographic 12 percentage points above Republicans in 2016.
Just two years later, white male millennials favor Republicans by 11 percentage points, a staggering 23 point move. And for that seismic shift, Democrats can blame themselves.
