It's never been clear to me how exactly the people who poo-poo the idea of emphasizing bread-and-butter issues to win back some of these voters recommend the Democrats proceed instead. Lie to them? Keep scolding and shaming them but EXTRA HARD this time? Double down on trying to Make Demographics Destiny Again? The entire point of a pivot to economic issues is to introduce new political incentives for voters who are currently motivated by uglier things. I'm appalled that this has to be spelled out over and over again.
What about people who just want to talk about what happened in the election, without getting caught up in whether talking about it in a certain way is politically advantageous or not? If people want to argue on this forum about the extent to which racism, fear of diversity or whatever you want to call it, drove people's votes, without turning it into some kind of strategy session about how the Dems should fix it, what's the problem? Nothing in Lief's post was prescriptive about how the Dems should address their problem here.
