Do you think that the Democratic party is about to go through its own tea party style internal shift ?

Anyone noticed that no focus groups were done in Louisiana and Mississippi? That's kinda odd for a report on the working class spearheaded by the former mayor of New Orleans.

Protecting marginalized people's civil rights is material politics.

By left side of the political spectrum, I mean from the center left on out.

Bigotry has no political allegiance.

When they can discriminate against you for being transgender or not white in employment, that becomes a kitchen table issue very fast.

Turns out those cultural issues you want to moderate on actually are kitchen table issues for those communities.

I think something that a lot of the pundit consultant class On the left side of the political spectrum haven't noticed or are ignoring but activists & advocates are well aware of is how estranged the African American community is from the Democratic party and the left in general in response to this.

I think her observation can be applied to all economic populists.

I find the implication in the essay that there is an inherent sort of left leaning economic populist bigotry towards poor white people that assumes they are all bigoted to be especially intriguing.

It makes me ask does economic populism have a class bigotry issue?

She really read the economic populists on the left side of the political spectrum to filth. They are gonna be mad.

I just saw the score. He may be gone by Monday

LSU fan base is a rather unforgiving group.

I think this entire situation is an outgrowth of the most self-sabotaging discourse that the left side of the political spectrum insists on engaging in, despite it being absurd on its face:

Economic populism vs identity politics... As if class was not an identity and race doesn't affect economics.

Watching how these guys react after they line up behind a nominee for the Democratic primary in 28 who has to go into the South and the Sun belt in order to secure the nomination for President is going to be a chapter in future political science text books

These are not philosophical questions.

These are big tent management questions put within the context of the essay.

I think in many ways, this was inevitable as soon as a significant chunk of the self-described left and self-described progressives decided to separate class identity from other forms of identity.

There is a significant chunk of the self-described left and self-described progressives in the US for whom bigotry is simply not a deal-breaker and They are having a meltdown because they discovered bigotry is a deal-breaker for their their soon to be former fellow travelers on the left.

My big tent management questions for the author:

1) Whose civil rights are you going burn to keep the bigots in your tent so they will vote for you?

2) What do you do when the only people left in your tent are bigots after the anti-bigots & the victims of your compromises with bigots bail?

My big tent management questions for the author:

1) Whose civil rights are you going burn to keep the bigots in your tent so they will vote for you?

2) What do you do when the only people left in your tent are bigots after the anti-bigots & the victims of your compromises with bigots bail?

The Nazi tat affair is why I argued in my book that bigotry is bipartisan.