Two salient charts:
And a second one:
For everyone thinking the party needs to “abandon identity politics,” three quick things:
1) We won the election. The system fucked us.
2) White people are an identity.
2) The future is real f’n clear. Look at those two charts above again.
Ours is the party of the future, theirs is not. Our challenge—and it’s a tough one—is to ensure those growth demographics turn out to vote, and that doesn’t just mean registering them, but eliminating GOP-instituted barriers to voting, from disenfranchisement to suppression. It means reforming the system so that democracy rules, and doesn’t prop up a minority of the population. And it means doubling-down on the Bernie-Clinton party platform that was the most liberal in party history.
Any retrenchment from that approach would be insanely stupid. And if you disagree, look at those charts again.