The left doesn t own minority voters – spiked
Sadly, racialism and constant campaigns to address systemic racism have driven a certain element of working-class whites not only in Trumpian America, but also in France, Britain, Germany and even Scandinavia, towards nativist, even openly racist, politics. As Michael Lind among others suggest, the fashionable focus on white privilege and assigning original sin based on someone sharing DNA with settlers and slave owners also doesn t work with the majority of Americans, who come from families who came to America after the Civil War. Meanwhile, crowing about the end of white America might be popular in ethnic-studies departments, but it does not translate into a better life for most minorities.
Racial minorities shift to the centre and the right represents a healthy step, as it undermines the racialist, us-versus-them rhetoric shared both by the nationalist right and the intersectional left. Once politicians begin addressing people as people, with their own interests, and not as artefacts of their own heritage, we can look to employ diversity not as a weapon, but as an asset.