I have been popping around looking for liberal takes on what happened in the election.
Unsurprisingly, they don’t get the results at all, and the primary reason is that they see the electorate as nothing but the aggregation of interest groups that are primarily based on race, gender, and income. The left believe they lost because too many Americans are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, yada yada yada.
As you know, I tend to see the dividing line in society along a different set of class lines: the elite and their clients versus everybody else. Race, gender, sexual orientation, and income matter less than the left thinks, while position in the cultural hierarchy is the defining factor.
If Republicans are smart, they can solidify their identity as the working class/sane class party. Trump shouldn’t be hiring people based on identity politics, but…
