HUGE lesson for Dems in 2020 from the primary results: -- limited audience for a white progressive (like Warren/Sanders) outside of a narrow ideologically-driven base. -- huge opportunity for someone like Kamala Harris to build multi-racial coalitionhttps://www.nationaljournal.com/s/672503?unlock=S8366BVXD1231IRJ …
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Replying to @HotlineJosh
I think it's a little more complicated: White progressives with no particular history/roots in issues outside that lane fail; but so do minority candidates who don't connect w white progressives. It's just basic coalition politics, on the Obama model, for a new generation.
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FWIW, candidates like Perriello spent time talking about issues important to the black community like crim justice reform. https://medium.com/tom-for-virginia/our-criminal-justice-system-is-broken-its-way-past-time-to-fix-it-54aa1fe74cb8 … Didn’t help.
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Didn’t help? He closed a 50 point gap against a popular lt gov in a very short campaign. Also Dana Balter and Liuba Grechen Shirley, both white, beat non-white candidates from the left. Like Ben said, it’s coalition politics, you’re overthinking it.
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and: when you're going down the House race level, you will find selected districts that are more favorable for white progressive Ds. Balter running in district that includes Syracuse U. Lots of progressive academics + college students. Big reason she beat DCCC cand.
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Progressives value representation so a minority candidate definitely (and rightly) gets points for that, but they can’t activate the coalition without the message and the politics, too.
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