Many Democrats continue to believe that the racism of average Americans — many of whom voted for Barack Obama twice — explains why Donald Trump won. This moralism suits party elites who would rather demonize the public than address growing inequality.
Just a helpful reminder that class relations are real, and that most legacy news outlets have a shared class-interest in de-emphasizing class and income as important electoral issues.
There’s a really good reason why democrats will seemingly do just about anything to avoid platforming socialist policies - and it isn’t because they aren’t popular. They see them as an existential threat to their party, because not only would they lose their primary funding sources if they were to stop protecting donors from wealth re-distributive policies, but they’d also lose their network of private sector allies that enable them to govern at all.
Once you understand the scope of the problem, it’s really hard to see the two party system as anything other than good-cop bad-cop neoliberal theater.
If you think of the democratic party as first and foremost a fundraising organization, their actions start to make sense.