Revenge of the Obama Coalition

[DonViejo]

November 10, 2017 at 7:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Michelle Goldberg: “if you squint at Tuesday’s results, you can sort of see a synthesis emerging between Obama and Hillary Clinton’s theory of the emerging Democratic electorate — in which Democrats win by appealing to a coalition of white professionals and minorities — and Bernie Sanders’s focus on grass-roots organizing and economic populism.”

“In some ways the election was the revenge of the Obama coalition. Educated white liberals joined people of color to elect an amazingly diverse group of candidates. A Latina single mother, Michelle De La Isla, was elected mayor of Topeka, Kan. Wilmot Collins, a refugee from Liberia, won the mayoral race in Helena, Mont. Seattle elected its first lesbian mayor, Jenny Durkan. After a year in which liberals have been bludgeoned by demands that they abandon identity politics and empathize with resentful Trump voters, the election was a reminder that white men needn’t be the center of the political universe.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/10/revenge-obama-coalition/

[elleng]

1. 'After a year in which liberals have been bludgeoned by demands that they abandon identity politics

and empathize with resentful Trump voters, the election was a reminder that white men needn’t be the center of the political universe.

Yet class politics and identity politics aren’t really a binary, even if they’re sometimes presented that way. Murillo, for example, the first person in her family to graduate from either high school or college, told me that affordable housing was a central issue in her campaign. Overall, Tuesday was a great night for economic populists. Before this week, the Democratic Socialists of America had 20 elected officials among its membership. On Tuesday, 15 more won local office, including 30-year-old Marine veteran Lee Carter, who unseated the Republican majority whip in Virginia’s House of Delegates. . .

Ultimately, the main lessons from Tuesday are probably more strategic than ideological.'

[Tavarious Jackson]

2. This is what democracy looks like!

We're stronger together

[Irish_Dem]

3. Obama, Hillary, Bernie: Three stellar politicians and human beings.

We should be proud of all of them.

[elleng]

4. Thumbs up.

[Gothmog]

5. I am proud participant of the Obama/Clinton coalition

[yortsed snacilbuper]

6. k&R