Yes, identity politics is fragmenting Democrats into irrelevance.
But that's because the rules of the system have been reshaped by the Supreme Court to make elections much more susceptible to that fragmentation.
This is largely the work of John Roberts over his tenure.
Consider Roberts's handiwork:
The unitary executive theory with its immunity from prosecution made the Presidency a single point of failure for our Constitutional operating system. Gutting the Voting Rights Act, permitting political gerrymandering, ruling gifts to former office are ok, and Citizens United did the rest.
The principal consequences:
1. Supercharged the power of money and extremism to use primary elections to pre-filter moderates from the general elections. Trump, without the ability to "primary," would have been discarded long ago.
2. Enabled those in power to further game the systems using legal maneuvers powered by virtually unlimited money to evade accountability and mount denial of service attacks.
Yes, identity politics is fragmenting Democrats into irrelevance.
But that's because the rules of the system have been reshaped by the Supreme Court to make elections much more susceptible to that fragmentation.
This is largely the work of John Roberts over his tenure.
Consider Roberts's handiwork:
The unitary executive theory with its immunity from prosecution made the Presidency a single point of failure for our Constitutional operating system. Gutting the Voting Rights Act, permitting political gerrymandering, ruling gifts to former office are ok, and Citizens United did the rest.
The principal consequences:
1. Supercharged the power of money and extremism to use primary elections to pre-filter moderates from the general elections. Trump, without the ability to "primary," would have been discarded long ago.
2. Enabled those in power to further game the systems using legal maneuvers powered by virtually unlimited money to evade accountability and mount denial of service attacks.