Back to Mark Lilla and his piece noting that identity politics is killing the democratic party....
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...tics_are_destroying_the_democratic_party.html
I write in the book about the websites of the Republican Party the Democratic Party. You look at the website of the Republican Party and smack in the middle of it is a list of 11 principles, 11 sentences of what we stand for. That’s the product of thought, and that’s the product of a lot of debates that happen in the conservative movement.
Until a few weeks ago, if you look at the Democratic Party website, you would find no such statement. Instead, you would go to the bottom and find a link to 17 different groups, most of them identity groups. That’s our inability to articulate a vision.
It’s a mess, and it doesn’t cohere because there’s no sense of a governing principle behind it. The Republicans have that.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...tics_are_destroying_the_democratic_party.html
I write in the book about the websites of the Republican Party the Democratic Party. You look at the website of the Republican Party and smack in the middle of it is a list of 11 principles, 11 sentences of what we stand for. That’s the product of thought, and that’s the product of a lot of debates that happen in the conservative movement.
Until a few weeks ago, if you look at the Democratic Party website, you would find no such statement. Instead, you would go to the bottom and find a link to 17 different groups, most of them identity groups. That’s our inability to articulate a vision.
It’s a mess, and it doesn’t cohere because there’s no sense of a governing principle behind it. The Republicans have that.
