Democratic hopefuls could learn from Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg

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9. Well, every one of our major DEMOCRATIC candidates is doing this.

To various degrees of course, and I assume this person is saying some should expand their efforts.

To be liberal, though, is to be open to others who are different and to be inclusive, and this practically defines the Democratic Party. Because of that Democrats are a giant, liberally dominated coalition of dozens of different ethnic, religious, racial, and gender ID groups.

The Republican Party, OTOH, is conservative, segregated racially, and hostile to expansion of women's rights and non-Christian religions. HUGE differences. Trump did draw in those famous white working men Democrats, who were upset about losing their white male privileges, from the "other side," but he was still speaking within his tribe.

Which is why we need to notice when experts like this one hide behind talking about "politicians" instead of risking angering the right by too obvious truth, in this case, not pointing out that this "tribal" focus is much stronger among conservative politicians. Big no to failing to recognize false equivalency and the failure of understanding it creates, whether advancing a malicious political agenda or just out of genuine fear of being targeted by the right.