This is such a good idea - maybe one of the best ideas the Left has come up with in the wake of a devastating election loss to Donald Trump and Republicans.
When asked by Daily Show host Desi Lydic to respond to a line from her recent op-ed in the New York Times, which stated, "It is time for us to accept that American politics is identity politics," here's what Tressie McMillan Cottom had to say:
I meant that we have spent a lot of time - and by ‘we,' again, I mean myself, people in the media, I think academics, researchers, and politicians, certainly - have spent a lot of time saying that identity politics is dangerous, or at least it's murky.
This is why we said Occupy was a distraction for the Democrats, Black Lives Matter was a distraction for the Democrats, the feminist movement is a distraction for the Democrats because they won't focus on real issues that matter to real Americans.
The problem with that is that you assume that the only people with an identity are women and people of color, but as Donald Trump has proven … is that every voter has an identity … and he tapped into one of the most powerful of American identities - he tapped into white identity, right. And he said, ‘you don't need to be ashamed of this identity' …Donald Trump played identity politics like a fiddle, so when you say that the Democrats lose because we play identity politics, it simply isn't true. This is about whose identities win when you appeal to them. That means you should double down on the identities of your base. You should go out to them, something I think Democrats really only did cosmetically this time, but to take seriously what the members of your base want based on who they are and how they view themselves.
Yes, Democrats. Yes.
Donald Trump is going to destroy the very foundation of Our Bureaucracy, and the only way to fix it is more identity politics.
I truly believe that if the Democrats double down on woke identity politics they will totally win in a landslide in 2026, 2028, and beyond.
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