How Democrats can talk about race and win

By artappraiser on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 9:48pm |

A new project reveals that combining race and class can be a winning message for Democrats in November and beyond.

Law professor @ianhaneylopez's new project reveals that if Democrats want to win in November and beyond, they should be talking more about race and class.

But not in the way they normally do. https://t.co/FNb1HS5ruk
— Vox (@voxdotcom) February 18, 2020

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https://www.vox.com/2020/2/18/21116867/ian-haney-lopez-merge-left-race-class-project-trump-racism-dog-whistles-2020-democrats

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[....] Roge Karma

The proportion of Democrats who found that narrative compelling is interesting in its own right. But what I found even more shocking was how people of color responded to the racial fear message.

Ian Haney López

Yes. Sixty percent of Latinos and 54 percent of African Americans found it convincing, which isn’t much lower than the 61 percent of whites who did.

Roge Karma

That finding seems to go against a lot of our presuppositions about how racism operates in politics. Why was this Trumpian narrative so compelling to everyone, including people of color?

Ian Haney López

The overwhelming majority of the people who respond positively to Trump’s racial messages do not hear them as expressions or endorsements of white superiority in the way that many progressives charge. [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 11:24pm

How Democrats can talk about race and win

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