Opinion: There's a reason populists like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are gaining on Joe Biden (via latimesopinion)
Looking beyond personalities, Thursday’s Democratic debate will be about three fundamentally different paths to 2020: embrace moderation; mobilize a “majority-minority” electorate; or come out strongly as economic populists.
The all-too-accurate perception that Democrats haven’t stood up for working people gave Trump his opening in 2016. His strategy was to racialize Yet if the 2020 presidential contest is defined primarily in terms of identity, Trump could win an election that he richly deserves to lose. Focusing primarily on mobilizing minority voters, by contrast, fails the test of arithmetic. Only 28% of Americans are considered nonwhite by the Census Bureau. Even if such a campaign won a narrow victory, it would leave America more bitterly divided than ever. The Democrats need a big win, based on a broad coalition.
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