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I doubt this will affect the left’s narrative.Ever since Donald J. Trump arrived on the political scene in 2015, elites have claimed his rise signals the last gasp of a dying white-majority America alarmed by cultural and demographic shifts. This was always a kind of security blanket—an excuse to ignore uncomfortable truths. If Tuesday’s election results do not demolish that cope once and for all, we’re not sure what will. Because look at the results: Trump made big gains among almost every demographic group: Latinos (45 percent went for Trump—a history-making number for a Republican presidential candidate), African Americans (13 percent voted Trump compared to 8 percent in 2020), Asians (39 percent), women (46 percent), the young (46 percent). The only group Kamala Harris made gains with was white college-educated women and those over 65. No, the Problem Isn’t the Voters
The legacy press explains reality away. Matthew Continetti on the right. Freddie deBoer on the left. Marianne Williamson on Democratic elites. Plus: Olivia Reingold, Frannie Block, and more.
Trump could buy 4 years of goodwill at the cost of massive additional debt.
Why so negative? Trump is elected with a majority GOP Congress. Surely by 2028 there the US will be in great shape.
If you mean a new strategy to win , then yes. Just like Trump did.
This ideal is really only possible to hold for someone who visibly belongs to the dominant group. Things like aversive racism and structural racism are very real things, and they create the perception in visible minorities of living in a hostile culture that people who aren't part of a group marginalized for a visible difference won't understand. This changes voting behavior by creating a solidarity on the basis of that visible element that leads to their marginalization.
How do you know which group @Chesterton belongs to? You are just making an assumption. Speaking of being marginalized nothing like being thought of as a voting block to make you feel that way
An inference is not an assumption, and the inference is based on the ideal stated. Being able to be treated as an individual is a privilege that a lot of people don't understand is a privilege, especially if they don't belong to a marginalized group.
You know, I was totally with you in that thread about free will, but I have no idea what you're going on about in your last two posts in this thread.
The "treat people as people" ideal you mentioned in the first post I quoted IMO doesn't deal with the realities of a heterogenous culture. It would be a great ideal if possible, but the reality of life in a country like the US often makes it impossible and instead it simply serves to dismiss real problems people are facing and is ultimately insensitive. What it does is exacerbate the problem of identity politics, because the people that identity politics is being sold to recognize that the problems identity politics attempts to solve are real problems. If conservatives want to make headway with minorities, we've got to acknowledge the reality of marginalization and come up with real solutions not simply resort to impossible ideals.You know, I was totally with you in that thread about free will, but I have no idea what you're going on about in your last two posts in this thread.
Okay, well, if you don't mind I'm going to continue to treat people as people as I've done my whole life. I treat dogs as dogs, I treat people as people. Politics has never really entered into it.
Politics enters into everything, as all social exchanges involve some sort of power dynamic. Though like I said, the issue with the sentiment of "treat people as people" is it fails to recognize structural problems that restrict access to employment, housing, education, and other aspects of public life based on visible characteristics. The dismissiveness adds fuel to the leftist agenda because even though their solution infantilizes these groups at least they recognize the problems that these groups face. The reality is that we all have hidden biases and prejudices, and the only way to truly engage people as individuals is to actively confront those biases rather than dismissing them. So what I am getting at is not that we shouldn't to the best of our ability treat each person as an individual, but that we cannot be so casual in believing we are doing so.
oh? that's why African Americans vote 80-90% the same as each other? The voting solidarity leads being identified as a voting block, the challenge is explaining what the dynamics are that create the voting block and what their common interests are.
