The Democrats are now facing the results of their identity politics. They have so compartmentalized their base into a ridiculous array of racial and gender groups each pitted against the other for power that there can be no one unifying face of the party. We have already seen candidates like Beto who are groveling and beating their breasts to apologize for their original sin of being born white straight and male.
I expect the Democrats will come to grief with their elevation of identity politics over meritocracy. Affirmative action seems mild when nothing immediate is at stake. It will be a lesson too late for the learning.