The People's Line

The People's Line

Blame centrists for toxic identitarianism

It wasn't the left that came up with this!

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Carl Beijer
Nov 19, 2024
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Achieving a supermajority means declaring independence from liberal and progressive interest groups that prevent Democrats from thinking clearly about how to win. Collectively, these groups impose the rigid mores and vocabulary of college-educated elites, placing a hard ceiling on Democrats’ appeal…

It’s not surprising that centrist political operative Adam Jentleson, like so many other centrists in the discourse right now, has concluded that well-known centrist Kamala Harris’s decidely centrist campaign lost because she listened… to progressives. This is the standard line every time a centrist loses, and it requires no audacity or imagination for someone like Jentleson to repeat it once again.

What does require some real chutzpah is for Jentleson to saddle progressives with "the rigid mores and vocabulary of college-educated elites”. Since when has this not been a hallmark of centrist Democrats?

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