@davidshor This is useful in that it clarifies my critique of this discourse. From the perspective of a practitioner it makes sense to focus on the actions of the Democratic Party because that is where one can have the most influence…
@davidshor …but from the perspective of someone trying to understand what is actually happening, the intense focus on marginal changes in rhetoric to the exclusion of the interaction of exogenous events with structural conditions in American politics is very frustrating.
@davidshor Like, from the “trying to understand things” perspective, the rise of BLM and the heightened salience of race and policing would seem to be a powerful influence on WWC voting irrespective of what individual Democrats said or did, given the racialization of US politics.
@davidshor Having said that, there is something of a hindsight bias here. If you are running against a candidate who openly questions the idea of a multiracial democracy of equals, it is very hard to *not respond to that* for fear of further raising the salience of the issue.
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