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In reply to the discussion: John Pavlovitz: No, the Democratic Party Can't "Message Better" to Racism, Misogyny, and Ignorance [View all]radius777
(3,814 posts)in decades, in terms of the policies he enacted which heavily helped the red states and rural areas. Did they appreciate this? No, of course not. Most are upset about woke, trans etc - that's what drives them - white identity politics.
We need to confront this idea that somehow we are the identity politics party and they are for 'normal Americans'. No, we are for everyone, and that's what they don't like. They want it to be all about them, like it was before the Civil Rights era.
Harris ran a very generic campaign focused on economics, ran on the Biden platform etc. She rarely spoke about her race or gender, rarely even responded to ugly attacks on her as not to get into that conversation. So this idea (that even comes from some on the left) that she ran on identity is absurd. Her identity mattered - to the racist and misogynists.