Dems Intent On Sticking To The Same ‘Identity Politics’ Play Book

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) met in Las Vegas Friday to discuss their strategy for the 2018 elections but reportedly spent no time debating the merits of the “identity politics” messaging they employed on their way to a resounding electoral defeat in 2016.

The first two days of the four day meeting featured lengthy strategy discussions related to increasing grassroots participation but excluded any debate over the party’s broader emphasis on race and gender based identity politics, according to The Washington Post.

The Democratic politicos gathered in Las Vegas acknowledged the cost they paid in 2016 for completely eschewing positive messaging in favor of a consuming focus on anti-Trump talking points but stopped short of a more general examination of first principles.

“From a branding perspective, we have a huge problem,” Ken Martin, the chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, told WaPo. “It was the biggest challenge for us in the last year — and our biggest mistake was uniting around ‘Stop Trump.'”

This self examination reportedly did not include a meaningful review of the factors that allowed the Trump campaign to assume the populist mantle traditionally held by Democrats.

For evidence of the DNC’s continued reliance on appealing to certain demographics based on a common race, gender or sexual orientation, one need only check the organization’s website, which includes specific sections dedicated to various races, the “LGBTQ community” and “women.”

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