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November 10, 2017 at 7:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Michelle Goldberg: if you squint at Tuesdays results, you can sort of see a synthesis emerging between Obama and Hillary Clintons theory of the emerging Democratic electorate in which Democrats win by appealing to a coalition of white professionals and minorities and Bernie Sanderss focus on grass-roots organizing and economic populism.
In some ways the election was the revenge of the Obama coalition. Educated white liberals joined people of color to elect an amazingly diverse group of candidates. A Latina single mother, Michelle De La Isla, was elected mayor of Topeka, Kan. Wilmot Collins, a refugee from Liberia, won the mayoral race in Helena, Mont. Seattle elected its first lesbian mayor, Jenny Durkan. After a year in which liberals have been bludgeoned by demands that they abandon identity politics and empathize with resentful Trump voters, the election was a reminder that white men neednt be the center of the political universe.
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elleng
(130,888 posts)and empathize with resentful Trump voters, the election was a reminder that white men neednt be the center of the political universe.
Yet class politics and identity politics arent really a binary, even if theyre sometimes presented that way. Murillo, for example, the first person in her family to graduate from either high school or college, told me that affordable housing was a central issue in her campaign. Overall, Tuesday was a great night for economic populists. Before this week, the Democratic Socialists of America had 20 elected officials among its membership. On Tuesday, 15 more won local office, including 30-year-old Marine veteran Lee Carter, who unseated the Republican majority whip in Virginias House of Delegates. . .
Ultimately, the main lessons from Tuesday are probably more strategic than ideological.'
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)We're stronger together
Irish_Dem
(47,013 posts)We should be proud of all of them.