The CRT backlash and progressives’ big lie about the culture war HotAir

There s clearly movement on both sides but by 2017 the median Democrat is clearly farther from the center than the median Republican. The left s big lie about where the culture war is coming (GOP polarization) is the opposite of reality. As Kevin Drum, who is himself a progressive, pointed out, this shouldn t be a surprise to anyone:

It is not conservatives who have turned American politics into a culture war battle. It is liberals. And this shouldn t come as a surprise: Almost by definition, liberals are the ones pushing for change while conservatives are merely responding to whatever liberals do. More specifically, progressives have been bragging publicly about pushing the Democratic Party leftward since at least 2004 and they ve succeeded.

Drum then quoted self-described socialist data geek David Shor who described how that polarization is playing out within the Democratic party:

Over the last four years, white liberals have become a larger and larger share of the Democratic Party&.And since white voters are sorting on ideology more than nonwhite voters, we ve ended up in a situation where white liberals are more left wing than Black and Hispanic Democrats on pretty much every issue: taxes, health care, policing, and even on racial issues or various measures of racial resentment.  So as white liberals increasingly define the party s image and messaging, that s going to turn off nonwhite conservative Democrats and push them against us.

via hotair.com

RTWT as they say.