⁨No, Democrats Don't Need a Straight White Guy to Win in 2028 [View all]

So Axios had a story this weekend about how a bunch of DC-based Democratic strategists think Democrats have to run “a straight, white, Christian man” in 2028 to win the presidency. And this is exactly the kind of lazy analysis you get from a lot of the DC consulting class that drives me absolutely up a wall.

I want to take a moment to explain my position, because I think very differently than a lot of other strategists in the party.

Up front: sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia—these things are real. It is harder for a person of color or a woman to get elected president of the United States. Just look at the track record. That part is obvious.

But my rebuttal isn’t that those things don’t exist. It’s that there’s something deeper going on. And if we don’t understand that, we’re going to keep misdiagnosing why we lose.

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