Opinion: What happens if the progressive vanguard talks mostly to itself?
law professor Ian Haney Lopez: “The idea is to shift the basic political conflict in the United States from one between racial groups to one between the 0.1% and the rest of us, with racism as their principal weapon.”
To me, Shor’s vision — sort your ideas by popularity, then “Start at the top, and work your way down to find something that excites people” — sounds less inspiring but more likely to help Democrats get and hold power. It doesn’t require Democrats to persuade voters that, say, an Asian American assistant professor has exactly the same interests as a rural, White call-center worker or a Hispanic plumber and that only a conspiracy of the very rich prevents them from realizing it.
As Matt Yglesias pointed out on Twitter, “A closed circle of young, college educated staffers is likely to end up further off-center the more they talk to themselves.
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