I have been saying this to anyone who will listen. Identity politics with a large mmajority only works if you can split the majority and keep them from not forming their own tribe. That is what the charges of racism and white privelege are all about.
If enough of the “white tribe” unite, the democrats are done. It won’t be because of racism, but because of white people in effect embracing the democrats identity politics.
I think VDH’s ‘salad bowl’ vs ‘melting pot’ is a correct prism to view this through, and I think it is important for this country to throw the ‘salad bowl’ in the trash and embrace a ‘melting pot’.
As VDH correctly points out, America has been successful for so long because of the’melting pot’ approach, contrasted to the ‘salad bowl’ approach which has been the source of wars, strife, poverty, and genocide over the centuries.
I guess what I meant was, it is good that these identity politics may have backfired on the Democrats and resulted in the election of Donald Trump, but those identity politics are toxic, and should be cosigned to the dustbin of history if we know what is good for us!