Elite white Democrats are moving away from the rest of the party.
The smart money is still betting that the #resistance has enough momentum - and there's enough shared loathing of Donald Trump among Democrats - to drive the party to victory in the House.
Earlier this year, I wrote about the Democrats' considerable "God gap." Only 32 percent of white Democrats believe in the God of the Bible, while nonwhite Democrats' religious beliefs closely mirror those of white Republicans.
As the white Democratic elite stampedes towards secular progressivism, it's even moved to the left of black Democrats on key racial issues.
There is still very broad agreement in the Democratic coalition on a host of issues - and Freedlander rightly observes that the policy differences between Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley and their establishment opponents were "Microscopically small" - but the progressive movement's Democratic/Independent Liberal Elite are different from the rest of the party.
Freedlander quotes Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at New America, who says that Democrats "Are in a coalition with a poorer set of voters who don't seem to get ahead but who are trapped in that coalition, since if they are poor African-Americans or poor Latinos they view the Republicans as a racist party."
As white progressives keep stampeding to the secular left, they may find that the cultural gap in their coalition grows so broad that it presents a persistent political problem.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/the-democrats-have-a-rich-white-progressive-problem/
The smart money is still betting that the #resistance has enough momentum - and there's enough shared loathing of Donald Trump among Democrats - to drive the party to victory in the House.
Earlier this year, I wrote about the Democrats' considerable "God gap." Only 32 percent of white Democrats believe in the God of the Bible, while nonwhite Democrats' religious beliefs closely mirror those of white Republicans.
As the white Democratic elite stampedes towards secular progressivism, it's even moved to the left of black Democrats on key racial issues.
There is still very broad agreement in the Democratic coalition on a host of issues - and Freedlander rightly observes that the policy differences between Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley and their establishment opponents were "Microscopically small" - but the progressive movement's Democratic/Independent Liberal Elite are different from the rest of the party.
Freedlander quotes Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at New America, who says that Democrats "Are in a coalition with a poorer set of voters who don't seem to get ahead but who are trapped in that coalition, since if they are poor African-Americans or poor Latinos they view the Republicans as a racist party."
As white progressives keep stampeding to the secular left, they may find that the cultural gap in their coalition grows so broad that it presents a persistent political problem.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/the-democrats-have-a-rich-white-progressive-problem/
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