Identity politics indeed cost Kamala Harris the election — Trump's supremacist kind
Rather than marking the end of identity politics, as the pundits proclaim, the 2024 election reflected the triumphal victory of the original version.
No, Kamala Harris did not lose because of her supposed embrace of “identity politics.” Just the reverse is true: Donald Trump won because of his very real embrace of identity politics. White identity politics.
It’s one of the more popular lines of self-flagellation Democratic Party critics and strategists have taken in the wake of the disastrous 2024 ele…
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