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Today's column tries, among other things, to make the point that Republicans are way to the right of the public on economic issues, and even most Democrats may be a bit to the right 1/ nyti.ms/2KCtB2X
But in that case, why are Republicans politically competitive? Because of identity politics – white identity politics. Modern Democrats aren't willing to cater to the significant number of racist big-government supporters; Rs are 2/
I keep coming back to this chart, which shows voters' political orientation on social v economic issues. There are a lot more voters on the left than the right 3/ voterstudygroup.org/publications/2… 
What this suggests among other things is that Dems should welcome Republican attacks on "socialism" and all that. If the debate actually ends up being about economics, Ds have the upper hand 4/
