2020: Dems Gearing Up for ‘Street Fight’ on Race, Identity Politics
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With left-wing activists and primary voters convinced that President Donald Trump is a “racist” and a “bigot,” Democrats vying for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination may have no choice but to go all-in on racial and identity politics.
Al Sharpton told Politico this week that 2020 contenders have to “stand up and go after people of color’s vote unapologetically,” adding that he believes Democrats “only can fight” Trump “with a street fight, and anybody who does not want to deal with the race part of that street fight should stay out of this fight.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), for instance, recently said at the Netroots conference that when it comes to identity politics, she will not “shut up” or be “silenced.”
“We shouldn’t just be thanking women of color for electing progressive leaders, in 2018 we should be electing women of color as those leaders,” Harris added at Netroots. “Now, I’m aware that some people will say that what I just said is playing ‘identity politics.’ I have a problem with that phrase, ‘identity politics.’ When people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide and used to distract.”
Politico also noted that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has referred to the criminal justice system as “racist… front to back” while Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has said it is “the biggest cancer on the soul of this country.”
Warren and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have also called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished.
David Axelrod, former President Barack Obama’s chief strategist, said Trump is “provoking a response” on race and even moderate blue-collar Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) told the outlet that Democrats “have to” talk about race because “Trump has been race-baiting for the last 18 months.”
But former Bill Clinton strategist James Carville told Politico that such a strategy could backfire.
“The best available political science says white identity was a bigger motivator in voting for Trump than nonwhite identity was for voting for a Democrat,” Carville reportedly said.
Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist in President Donald Trump’s White House, predicted last year that Democrats would move even further to the left on race and identity politics. Bannon essentially told Democrats to “bring it on.”
“The Democrats,” Bannon told the American Prospect ’s Robert Kuttner last year, “the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”
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“Al Sharpton told Politico this week that 2020 contenders have to “stand up and go after people of color’s vote unapologetically,” adding that he believes Democrats “only can fight” Trump “with a street fight, and anybody who does not want to deal with the race part of that street fight should stay out of this fight.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), for instance, recently said at the Netroots conference that when it comes to identity politics, she will not “shut up” or be “silenced.”
“We shouldn’t just be thanking women of color for electing progressive leaders, in 2018 we should be electing women of color as those leaders,” Harris added at Netroots. “Now, I’m aware that some people will say that what I just said is playing ‘identity politics.’ I have a problem with that phrase, ‘identity politics.’ When people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide and used to distract.”
Politico also noted that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has referred to the criminal justice system as “racist… front to back” while Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has said it is “the biggest cancer on the soul of this country.”
Warren and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have also called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished.”
With the King of the Birthers in charge I can see why the GOP has given up hope of winning the votes of anyone who isn't white.
And after the fiasco Trump caused by ripping refugee children from their parents I can see why very few people with kids would vote for the GOP. Sounds like the GOP's strategy to corral the party to just elderly white folks will soon be complete.
Exactly. The street action will be more severe as Trump gains more support from African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans and democrats struggle to keep their base at home on their plantation, dependent on big government to meet their wants.
And yet Trump is growing his support among minority groups.
Maybe someday ALL Americans will line up behind trump and we can do away with congress and trump can have full unobstructed control of everything.
Nirvana or dictatorship whatever wouldn't that be makin America great ?
Not in my opinion !!!
Personally I like the checks and balances the founding fathers put in place restricting the power so ONE man would Not have all or even too much power over us.
to each their own HA.
Have a nice weekend, Here in Phoenix we're finally supposed to get some rain ... Good !
Hope you get some too.
O no you didn't....LOL
Are we now counting on "Might makes right" to move America ?
Isn't that still wrong to conservatives ?
Protests and riots O my !
But you're correct, get the muscle behind the "movement" and watch the opposition hide.
Just makin America great sure seems like a lot of BS at this point.
Dividing us up even more for power and profit seems seems more important to some.
Why Unite the country when just over half gives ya the power over us all ?
They learned !!
PS: Al Sharpton's been an ignorant A-hole for many years, best to pay him no attention and dont listen to him much !
The street action isn’t coming from the Trump side. It’s Antifa and BLM that will be in the streets protesting their loss of minority voters being monolithic for the democrats.
The street action will be more severe as Trump gains more support from African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans
Sorry Maybe I misread your statement and meaning.
You did. The street action on the left already exists and is going to get worse. Conservatives rarely engage in protests and when they did with the tea party it was always peaceful.
Hmmmm...2016 election, Trump garnered 9 percent of the black vote. Today, blacks favor Trump in the mid 20s and growing. That's a whole lotta gettin off the liberal plantation.
Indeed there is and those leaving will find a happy home among conservatives and libertarians in the GOP. And those with political interest will find that they can win in large majority white districts and states.
LOL. Only a Fox viewer would believe that BS.
Of course, bigoted leftists would try and say a poster used a particular poll to get across their point, but reality shows the poster did not use nor mention that poll. In reality, Trump's approval is slightly above 20 percent, almost triple what it was in 2016. Are you going to call the NAACP liars?
Either way, there are millions of African Americans fleeing the liberal plantation for greener grounds. Whether it is being Republican or Independent, that is yet to be seen.
That is the bottom line. That Trump support is growing in minority communities. The all time lows in unemployment has something to do with it as Trump is giving people hope.
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The farther they go left, the more it backfires on them.
The bottom line.
When you hear this rhetoric coming from the left, the wonder is how they can ever win another election outside of their extremist base centers like San Francisco CA or Massachusetts. Democratic strategists claim they will fight every campaign with candidates that fit the local election. That may be how the DNC goes forward, but what you see in the seeded article is what is in their hearts.
And there are enough districts where what is in their hearts has won over what their mind intended to do.