Saturday, October 09, 2021

"What If, Contrary to Conventional Democratic Wisdom, the Power That These Young People Wield Within the Party Is Actually Hurting Its Chance at the Ballot Box Rather Than Helping It?"

"'We are really lucky that we have a bunch of relatively moderate, economically progressive people in the Democratic Party who have close to median views on social issues and religiosity and all this other stuff, and the only thing is, most of them aren't white,' Shor said. 'Someone derisively told me that what I was saying is that we should be booking Maxine Waters instead of random [Black Lives Matter] activists, and I think that's right. I think we should probably care what [Congressional Black Caucus] members think about things.'"

Ian Ward at Politico discusses the "Democrats' Privileged College-Kid Problem."

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