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2020: Dems Gearing Up for ‘Street Fight’ on Race, Identity Politics

  

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Via:  heartland-american  •  7 years ago  •  20 comments

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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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    7 years ago

“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.”

 
 
 
Skrekk
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1.1  Skrekk  replied to  XXJefferson51 @1    7 years ago

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.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.1    7 years ago

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.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Skrekk @1.1    7 years ago

And yet Trump is growing his support among minority groups.  

 
 
 
321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu
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1.1.4  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu   replied to  XXJefferson51 @1.1.2    7 years ago

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. 

 
 
 
321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu
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1.1.5  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu   replied to  XXJefferson51 @1.1.2    7 years ago
 The street action will be more severe

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 !  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.6  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu @1.1.5    7 years ago

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.  

 
 
 
321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu
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1.1.7  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu   replied to  XXJefferson51 @1.1.6    7 years ago
The street action isn’t coming from the Trump side....

 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. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.8  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu @1.1.7    7 years ago

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.  

 
 
 
bugsy
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1.1.9  bugsy  replied to  Skrekk @1.1    7 years ago
I can see why the GOP has given up hope of winning the votes of anyone who isn't white.

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.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.10  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  bugsy @1.1.9    7 years ago

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.  

 
 
 
Skrekk
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1.1.11  Skrekk  replied to  bugsy @1.1.9    7 years ago
Today, blacks favor Trump in the mid 20s and growing.

LOL.    Only a Fox viewer would believe that BS.

The White House regularly responds to accusations of racism by noting that black unemployment is at historic lows under Trump’s presidency.  Sarah Huckabee Sanders even cited some wildly inaccurate statistics on black employment from the White House podium this week to defend the president from charges of racial bias. She later acknowledged the error.

Trump has also attempted to inoculate himself from charges of racism by selectively citing polling numbers, which suggest he’s remarkably popular for a Republican president among African Americans.  The president, for example, retweeted these polling numbers from Rasmussen on Wednesday:

Today’s @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 36%

This day last year: 19% @POTUS @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/uIqYxoBn6w

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 15, 2018

Those results were then picked up by pro-Trump media outlets like Breitbart, which used the data to argue against “accusations of racism from the Democratic left.”

It might seem far-fetched that over a third of African Americans would now approve of a president with a very long history of racial insensitivity — especially because fewer than 10 percent of black voters supported him in 2016.

That’s because it is far-fetched.  Trump’s black approval rating is nowhere near 36 percent.

Polling firms that have interviewed far more African Americans, and that are much more transparent than Rasmussen, all show that Trump’s black approval rating is much lower than 36 percent.

For example, Gallup has interviewed thousands of African American respondents in 2018. Its polling suggests that Trump’s black approval rating has consistently been around 10 to 15 percent through 2018.

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The same is true in polling by Ipsos/Reuters:
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Similarly, the polling firm Civiqs , which has interviewed more than 140,000 respondents in 2017 and 2018 suggests that Trump’s black approval rating has consistently been in the single-digits throughout his presidency:
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Similarly, Trump’s average approval rating among African American respondents in seven YouGov/Economist surveys conducted in July and August was 13 percent. His average approval rating among African Americans in four Quinnipiac University surveys conducted over the past two months was just 9 percent. These data remind us to be skeptical of outlier polls — especially when those results fly in the face of what we already know about African Americans’ weak support for Republican presidents in general and their strong disapproval of Donald Trump in particular.
 
 
 
bugsy
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1.1.12  bugsy  replied to  Skrekk @1.1.11    7 years ago

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.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.13  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  bugsy @1.1.12    7 years ago

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.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2  seeder  XXJefferson51    7 years ago

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Rmando
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3  Rmando    7 years ago

The farther they go left, the more it backfires on them.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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3.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Rmando @3    7 years ago

The bottom line. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4  Vic Eldred    7 years ago

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.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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4.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Vic Eldred @4    7 years ago

And there are enough districts where what is in their hearts has won over what their mind intended to do.  

 
 

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