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In reply to the discussion: 2 black kids adopted by white Republicans 40 years ago [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)under the bus as mere "identity issues" because there are white men who are feeling like mounting a backlash, much like the GOP did for their white male base who felt that a black man who went to Harvard "wasn't going to put them first."
I get "whitelash." But there is a difference between "understanding the white male pinch" and taking the party back to an era where they were kings of the castle.
They are no longer the dominant demographic, and pretending for their sake that they still are will alienate the population that actually is becoming that.
I think that correcting gerrymandering, and reforming the electoral college will go a long way to rectifying one of the elements of the delicate white cis man getting his way to the detriment of the majority.