You gotta love our liberal friends. Here we should be wiping the floor with the Republicans, say the folks at the New Republic in Bush’s Last Laugh. Instead the situation “verges on the apocalyptic” for the Democrats.
Where it once looked like Bill Clinton and Al Gore had helped purge the party of the lame identity politics that had ruined Democratic candidates for a generation, discussions of race and gender have returned with a vengeance. Supporters of Clinton and Obama compete to prove who is the bigger victim—opponents are casually tarred as sexist or racist.
Oh yeah? Since when did Clinton and Gore do anything but use identity politics in the 1990s, appointing tons of people to administration positions because of their race or gender?
What Bill Clinton did in the 1990s was keep a low profile on race and gender. Above the radar, he was the president of the soccer moms. But below the radar he was a full-on practitioner of identity politics, careful to keep feminists and blacks on side and eager, with the Motor Voter law, to make it easy for anyone with a driver’s license (i.e. Mexican nationals) to register to vote.
And when Al Gore ran for the presidency in 2000 he ran a class warfare campaign, “fighting for the people against the powerful.”
Last time I looked, race and identity politics was going as strong as ever in the nation’s schools and universities, as Mike S. Adams experiences on a daily basis. Recently he’s been trying to get the University of North Carolina to help publicize a talk given by a notorious Christian creationist, and the university keeps losing his emails. Wrong identity, you see.
Let’s face it, the Democrats have done a land office business with race, class, and gender identity politics. But, as the good book says, those who live by the sword will die by the sword.
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