This spot-on insight @tanehisicoates has of the Obama's politics should nuance his and others' views of Lilla/identity politicspic.twitter.com/ql9t0ndL3v
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Which is to say there's a way of addressing a constituency that DOES make others feel forgotten. Which goes to
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Yes but what do you do when reflecting one group's authentic and legitimate worldview means trashing another group?
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in a lot of ways the bar is even higher now than it was for President Obama in 2008/2012, in terms of speaking across group lines.
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Agree. I think I said in the Atlantic that Obama was singularly equipped to mask tensions b/w the old Democratic Party & what we have now
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The statesman will reflect the best and challenge the corrosive...the utilitarian, the demagogue will use the worst for their advantage
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