With the party having moved left and past Obama, Holder’s free to make that point more explicitly. He’s enough of a neoliberal himself to pull his punches even in the clip below, noting as an afterthought that America’s done great things, but the bottom line is its essential suckiness. When was it great for blacks? For women? For gays? To which alleged "golden age" for these people do MAGA-ites wish to return? For each of those groups, right now ‐ or three years ago, when Obama was still in office ‐ is the closest to "great" America’s ever been.
The Democratic preoccupation with identity in this year’s primary is a function of that belief. Beto O’Rourke has to apologize for his "white privilege" every six hours to signal his awareness that America may not suck for him but it sucks for most of the Democratic base, or so progressive dogma claims. And he’s in the awkward position of asking those voters to nominate him for president even though one obvious way to get America closer to "greatness" defined progressively is more electoral opportunity for previously marginalized groups ‐ blacks, women, gays. If you want America to be great, why would you nominate Beto instead of Stacey Abrams?
Extradite the asshole to Mexico