[TigerLikesRooster]

So the big question is, “Can Democrats rise above identity politics?” They have so many bitter practitioners of identity politics, and they are not small fringe groups. It won't be easy.

[kearnyirish2]

It will be very difficult; Obama himself only won with a lot of white votes. 2016 must have been a nightmare for the die-hard adherents of the non-white coalition; even the third-party candidates were white.

[kearnyirish2]

I also think another lessons for the Dems was that they couldn’t protect Hillary in public discourse the way they did Obama (by simply saying if you disagree you’re racist); many people (including women) were quite comfortable watching her get publicly trashed by Trump. Her arrogant and condescending tone for the last 25 years made it acceptable, I guess.