Democrats deviated to the identity policy and away from the interests of the working class. on Washington Week with the Atlantic OceanGeorge Bakr joins Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss his recent reports on the delusions of the Democratic Party and the future of American policy.
Bakr explained that the re -election of Donald Trump should put an end to two progressive illusions, last night: The first of these delusions is the idea that identity is the political destiny; The second is the theory that the Democratic Party has been kept out of power by the minority of a white republic that distorts the popular will through means such as the suppression of voters or skiing.
“The Democratic Party has become the Foundation Party, the current situation, for institutions,” said Bakr. The party came to organize itself according to the framework that “the main identity of the citizen is the identity of the group on the basis of race, sex and sex.” But when doing this, “they lost a large number of ordinary Americans who do not see themselves primarily in these terms, most of them are the working class … and who used to be the backbone of the Democratic Party.”
At the same time, as with the drifting of the working class away from Democrats and the Republicans, the growing global situation in the country was also building. “We are not the powerful power that we were after the end of the Cold War,” said Bakr. “We have stood up to a specific arrangement, a specific group of values, a specific liberal view of the world, and I think this may collapse very quickly under Trump because he does not believe in him – in fact, he wants to destroy it, and also does the people who put them in major positions.”
Baker discusses this, in addition to his reports on conspiracy and excessive parties in Phoenix, Arizona, the fastest city in the country, with the editor -in -chief Atlantic OceanJeffrey Goldberg.
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