Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 13, 2021

Maher often rails against the young, sometimes unfairly, but sometimes spot on. White liberal left youth see what we haven’t done and despair, those of us with scars from the 60’s recognize accomplishments and resolve to continue. Non-whites roll their eyes at some of the outlandish tactics of the young.

Edsall quotes some interesting research on non-white defections to Trump, mystifying as that is. Lopez argues that the best way to defuse divisive racial issues is to explicitly portray such tactics as “a divide-and-conquer strategy.” The basic idea, Lopez wrote, is to shift the basic political conflict in the United States from one between racial groups (the right’s preferred frame) to one between the 0.1 percent and the rest of us, with racism as their principal weapon. In our research, this race-class fusion politics is the most promising route forward for Democrats. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/david-shor-biden-democrats.html