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Zaid Jilani's avatar

I think you raise some fair points but miss one: consultants and professional activists are exactly the people who want to hear the phrase "multiracial" over and over. People, minorities included, don't want to see themselves as part of some Rainbow Coalition; real life isn't Captain Planet. People are just people. To the extent there is any kind of cultural pandering, it can be direct and normie, not in this mindset of some kind of racial coalition, which people don't know or care about as voters.

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Tom Benthin's avatar

Love this. But what’s missing is a plan to force these changes, which will require ousting the existing power centers of the party and drastically changing its culture. A party that protects blue slips while ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t interested in or capable of adopting these vital recommendations.

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