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Identity Politics a Ticking Time Bomb for Democrats
I’ve often thought that I probably couldn’t be a Democrat even if I held liberal policy views. The reason: it’s just too much work. The number of identity-based tripwires you have to navigate on any given day virtually assures you’re going to blow off a limb at some point. As Glenn Reynolds notes in his new USA Today column, the consequences of that trend are now playing out in the intra-Democratic fight over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal:
Right before Obama’s trade bill cratered in the Senate last week, Obama complained that its chief Senate critic, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., didn’t understand the real world. [National Organization for Women President Terry] O’Neill then chalked Obama’s attitude up to sexism.
O’Neill told The Hill she took issue with Obama calling Warren by her first name during an interview with Yahoo News published May 9.
You can’t blame Californians for being somewhat jaded, if not downright disinterested, in statewide elections. Just look at the numbers.