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[quote=Anonymous]This excerpt from a piece in Persuasion (which attempts to, you know, persuade rather than insult, the forte of DCUM posters) sums things up nicely:

[i]"The blame for what happened in Virginia does not fall at McAuliffe’s feet alone. Youngkin was only successful in painting him as out-of-touch and overly obsessed with identity politics because that’s how voters already see the Democratic Party. And yet, Democrats seem likely to brush this off as a made-up problem. In a pre-election rally for McAuliffe, Barack Obama told supporters, “We don't have time to be wasting on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage that right-wing media peddles to juice their ratings.”

What Obama misses is that it’s not only Republicans who are ginning up phony culture wars. Democrats risk doing the same thing under the guise of social justice and identity politics. Of course, Democrats shouldn’t stop fighting for justice or cultural progress, but the way they are fighting those battles now is both politically unpopular and substantively counterproductive.

If Democrats want to win elections and actually make progress on issues of social justice, they will need to stop distracting themselves with a superficial culture war and focus more squarely on improving the lives of everyday Americans."[/i]

Over the past two years, Democrats in Virginia have governed as if what they stand for is far more important than what they accomplish in office.  At the national level, of course, they are impeded by Republicans in Congress; at the state and local level, however, the wounds are almost entirely self-inflicted. They are now paying the price electorally and this will only continue unless they took a hard look in the mirror. [/quote]

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