Republicans would like to make the Democratic Party indistinguishable from the left’s most divisive figures and policy demands. Why some liberal pundits feel compelled to do the same is more puzzling. EricLevitz writes
There is no Department of Anti-Racism in the Biden Administration. Photo: Steven Senne/AP/Shutterstock Republicans would like to make the Democratic Party indistinguishable from the left’s most divisive figures and policy demands.
The point of these attacks is to disguise the actual fault lines between America’s two major parties — which concern, among other things, the distribution of after-tax income, the balance of power between labor and capital, the propriety of environmental regulation, and the desirability of popular sovereignty — behind a set of controversies that do not cleave Democrats from Republicans so much as separate America’s cultural mainstream from its left-wing vanguard.
For all of [President Biden’s] successes, though, there’s a fire raging in his party that Biden hasn’t even tried to control — and probably couldn’t extinguish if he did. For me , this is more than a backdrop to his presidency. It’s a dealbreaker.In their zeal to beat back Trumpism, the loudest Democratic groups have transformed into its Bizarro World imitators.
To be clear, I think Ibram X. Kendi’s conception of anti-racism and other cultural currents invoked by Bai have shaped Democratic policy-making in some discrete jurisdictions. As I’ve written, a bizarre brand of “progressive” racial essentialism has found its way into some teacher-training programs at public schools.
“Woke” progressives may have some influence in blue America. But they are scarcely the dominant force in Democratic politics. On Tuesday night, San Francisco residents voted overwhelmingly to recall members of a school board that had gained national attention for pushing to remove Abraham Lincoln’s name from one of the city’s high schools. New York City, meanwhile, is governed by an ex-cop who champions solitary confinement and stop and frisk.
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