[jfengel]

The right is all about identity politics. It just happens to be white-guy identity politics.

The Democrats offered the "outcome" of a competently-run government. People rejected that. People on the left said that it wasn't enough.

The Democrats could offer a bigger vision. They could find a celebrity who makes big, incoherent promises that will make things worse in the unlikely event they actually get implemented. That's not what I want from a Democratic President, but I'll vote for it over any Republican -- just as the "moderate" Republicans seem perfectly content to put a criminal in office rather than any Democrat.

[nis0s]

> The Democrats offered the "outcome" of a competently-run government

The trick is that the Republicans paint their identity politics as “helping the poor” by scapegoating all types of other people for the economic misery of the lower income earners. The Democrats don’t have a vision which includes lower income earners to a large extent. I remember most of Kamala’s campaign promises, and they seemed to me to promise more of the same policies which favor upper middle classes.