ask who’s driving up the cost of care there. Read Gawande’s article here describing the phenomenon: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

Democrats shouldn’t be catering to black identity politics more. Anti-blackness is a force as powerful as any in American politics and the challenge for democrats moving forward will be framing non college educated identity as non-adversarial to their current coalition. 7/7

At the same time, it’s beyond naive for folks to think that this has nothing to do with underlying racism or misogyny either. Of course the major issue may have been inflation, but when one criticizes the democrats for playing identity politics, what they’re really saying is that… 6/x

The Democratic Party was unable to appeal to the identities of non college educated voters. When the media ecosystem is dominated by manosphere whisperers like Rogan or Theo Von, what’s really needed is to create both rivaling media spheres to combat their influence and to reach that audience. 5/x

This is actually the conclusion of the book. Voters are motivated by identity and politicians that can successfully frame policy in that context will succeed. This brings me to the current post-election autopsy. The democrats did not “abandon the working class” 4/x

Take the example of rural poor white southerners leaving the new deal coalition which helped them economically. They felt that black people should do more to help themselves and deluded themselves into the ideology of white supremacy. A clear example of identity being prioritized over economics. 3/x

One such example is comparing municipalities who put up the introduction of fluoride into the water supply against those that just did it. Comparing their dental outcomes is staggering, turns out voters could get spooked and would often vote against introducing it into the water supply. 2/x

You see pundits like Ezra Klein in full denial mode about how Matt Gaetz might be some kind of 5D chess move when it’s Trump just being as evil and chaotic as he showed in his first term and the campaign.