Because if it's just more yelling at white people Bannon is right and it helps the GOP.
Identity politics for Democrats can't mean they play straight into the hands of the Duce and the Klan by embracing not diversity but exclusion, validating or appearing to validate the Republicans' key racial claim that the Democrats are not the party for everybody but the party for everybody else, everybody who isn't white.
Or anyway everybody who is against whites or wants to sell them out.
Hillary did that, embracing diversity without for a moment seeming to embrace exclusion - except perhaps of white men, but that's a whole different matter.
And O did it even better.
The president has made identity politics part of his vision – progressives must fight back on those same terms
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