Beto using the right tactic.

[Athene]

Meh, the article itself is so full of shit it would take a longer article to address it all..but that doesn't actually matter, since I'm only commenting on the fact that people are saying it.  

How linking another article, one that overtly plays with the themes of victimized whiteness I just described, contradicts anything I mentioned is a mystery.  It's just another example from another source of people saying those things.  Saying them in the mainstream..rather than the fringes of radical supremacy.  That's kindof the issue, to begin with.  The message works, it resonates, politicians are by nature panderers and they can't afford to ignore it...while, on the other hand, simply pointing out that the deplorabros exist and are deplorable is political suicide, lol.  Seems like the scales might be a little bit tilted.

The short version of a long story here, for the democrat types of the boards dreaming of a broader coalition of voters that poaches some of the republicans base.....is that the candidate who can express those narratives in the most socially acceptable way is going to have an advantage.  In truth, every candidate gets as close to the line as they can at some point.  That much isn't new.  Pandering to overt and latent white supremacy is as old as america.

There will be no meaningful denunciation of the themes that contributed to trumps election even if trump manages to survive to election time and then gets voted out.  The current "war" in the dem party is whether or not to stump on such a rejection in the first place.  Here again, gotta toss them a bone if we don;t want the bad thing™ to happen...a loss, in this context.

There you have it.

The Dems challenge, especially during primary season, is to be able to pull that off without alienating too many voters from one or both of the country's largest minority coalitions. 
Most minorities do indeed "get" that candidates must engage in some degree of pandering to white supremacy and angst in order to seal the deal; Especially so in today's climate. But doing so as a Dem is a real tightrope. 

Times have changed.
 
Go too far and/or commit to being unapologetically dismissive, and more than enough minority voters are prepared to drop primary candidates like a bad habit or stay home and let the Dems fend for themselves in the general election. Any Democratic candidate dumb enough to expect that minorities will vote and canvass for them, and then exit through the back door and dutifully STFU about their specific concerns until the next election cycle is in for a rude awakening. 
Not gonna to happen.
Lol....And good luck trying to employ scare tactics of "Bu..But Trump will have another four years!". That shit won't work on folks who have long been used to navigating life with a substantial amount of oppression. They already know they can tough another Trump term out.

Minority voters want to be treated like the electoral power that they actually are, and to be heard and engaged just like anyone else.

So the top Democratic contender must learn to become adept at taking calculated swipes at "identity politics", all whilst appealing to them....and manage to convince virtually everyone that they're on their side.

It's a tough row to hoe, but...it can be done.




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