Writing at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight site, colleague Perry Bacon Jr. writes about Trump using identity politics as a way of energizing white voters, examining the question: “Does it work?” Bacon’s short answer: we don’t know.
What is darned clear is the talk by most Democrats who would be president in favor of reparations (free money) for black people. Plus favoring sentencing reform which disproportionally helps black people and open borders plus health care for illegals which is perceived as pandering to Hispanics.
Does anyone believe white people don’t hear it when Democrats say these things? Or don’t understand they’re being asked to subsidize blacks and Hispanics to help Democrats get elected?
In wooing some identity groups, Democrats make other groups self-aware and concerned about being taken advantage of. Trump doesn’t have to do much to stimulate white identity politics, unbidden the Democrats do it for him.
