Because liberals focused on diversity want people to identify only by their minority traits. Ergo, only an official that shares the same minority traits can’t possibly understand or identify with the constituent. It is a tactic of disregarding the commonality of folks to accentuate their differentness that sustains the Democrat Party. They needn’t worry about the needs of individuals so long as they get people to identify as minorities and then find ways to throw bones at the minority group as a whole.
Correction: Only an official that shares the same minority traits can possibly . . .
Correction: Maybe the word differentness doesn’t exist but I think it is more expressive than using differences, imo.