A peek behind the curtain - WOKE

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Interesting - David Shor is one of the big brains of the progressives.  He is currently head of data science with OpenData, a progressive nonprofit and presently serves as a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He was the key person in the Obama campaign watching and analyzing the polling data in Chicago. The guy's political perspective is warped but he is otherwise a very very smart cookie. When you lose someone like him, you need to seriously reevaluate what you are doing.  From Reason:

Woke Excess Causes Minority Voters To Flee the Democratic Party
While the Democratic Party pulled off a complete (albeit narrow) victory over Donald Trump and the Republican Party in 2020, they lost ground with nonwhite voters—despite significantly raising the salience of racial justice issues during the campaign.

According to progressive pollster David Shor, it's time to face the facts: The cultural views of very highly-educated, very left-leaning white people are toxic for many nonwhite voters who would otherwise support the Democratic Party.

"I don't think a lot of people expected Donald Trump's GOP to have a much more diverse support base than Mitt Romney's did in 2012," Shor told New York magazine in a recent interview. "But that's what happened."

Shor pointed to two specific associations—socialism and the "defund the police" movement—that appear to have tarnished the Democratic Party in the eyes of minority voters. The former is an unsurprising finding, and something I've written on previously: Socialism is generally not popular with Hispanic voters, who associate it with the kind of political oppression experienced by people in Venezuela and Cuba.

But the latter is also noteworthy, given that "defund the police" is a mantra recited by progressive activists who purport to represent the wishes of racial minorities. These activists claim, for instance, that the role of police in society is to defend or legitimize America's white supremacist culture. In other words, activists want to defund the police because they think doing so is a necessary component of antiracist organizing.

The trouble is that many racial minorities don't actually share that view.

That old problem about the narrative not being the truth.

You may push the narrative but don't expect the majority of us to believe it.

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