2016 Postmortem

because such a post would be hidden, as you well know.

The disparaging remark about "the confederacy" came from a candidate during the primary. We then saw a spate of threads about how those states shouldn't even count. That same candidate argued that the diverse states put relatively early in the primary process (after Iowa and NH) "distorted reality" by voting before the predominantly white Western caucus states. I agree it was wholly offensive, but since it served the purpose of promoting the only thing that mattered--one man's political career, it was justified. Also offensive were multiple threads insisting African Americans suffered from "Stockholm Syndrome" for failing to vote as told, whereas women voted with our "vaginas" because we lacked the capacity for reason. We also heard great outrage that 1) The Clinton campaign informed Nevada voters they could legally register at caucus sites and 2) that the elderly and disabled were allowed to vote by proxy at another Western state caucus. It became clearly that no one's voting rights were too insignificant to dispense with in order to promote one candidate, and if that meant keeping historically disenfranchised citizens from voting, so be it. (I invite you to conduct searches by the terms I quoted above if you care to see examples.)

Juxtapose those attacks on the subaltern with the post election mantra about the white working class.
Now, evidently working class has come to be defined as people who make over $75-$100k a year, since voters who earn less than that voted for Clinton by wide margins. You see, the majority of voters who earn less than the Trump threshold of $75k are in fact women and people of color--the actual working class. But that a guy in Indiana who makes $150k is pissed off a black person is able to make $40k means we should cater to their sense of outrage.

As for your assessment:

I agree it is something no progressive or Democrat should argue, but many disagree. In fact, that--and comments disparaging Planned Parenthood, unions, and any number of civil rights leaders as "establishment"-- are taken as gospel. We are told that those who disparage "the confederacy," and who juxtaposes registered Democrats to "real people" are not only justified, they represent "real leaders" too superior to be criticized. I will not obey. I care about principles like voting rights and human equality far more than any politician's career, and it is that refusal to elevate one man's career over the rights of citizens that has promoted me to be targeted for well over a year with insults of being a "corporatist" and "Third Way" (whereas prior to that I was too "radical" for caring about the very same issues).