Column: Black voters are no longer the furthest left flank of the Democratic Party (via latimesopinion)
that the Biden people say it is. But Bedingfield’s argument has a longer shelf life both for the Democratic primary and the country.
Now, that has changed. The most liberal flank of the Democratic Party is far whiter than it used to be, and decidedly to the left of many of the party’s blacks and other racial minorities on a wide range of issues. Zach Goldberg , a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, wrote a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon forin June in a piece titled “America’s White Saviors.
More broadly, white liberals have become deeply ideological, shedding the coalitional and transactional orientation that long defined Democratic Party politics. One can see it as a left-wing version of the right-wing emphasis on ideological purity that consumed and ultimately bedeviled the Republican Party before Donald Trump smashed all that.
This is the context that is vexing many of the Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination. To many conservative ears, all of the talk about race on the debate stage sounds like pandering to the black vote. But they’re actually pandering just as much to the white liberal vote and its echo chamber on Twitter.
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