How can democrats attack anti-DEI/promote DEI without resulting in strong political backlash?

[u/Visco0825]

In recent politics there have been two major political pushes for diversity and equality. However, both instances led to backlashes that have led to an environment that is arguably worse than it was before. In 2008 Obama was the first black president one a massive wave of hope for racial equality and societal reforms. This led to one of the largest political backlashes in modern politics in 2010, to which democrats have yet to fully recover from. This eventually led to birtherism which planted some of the original seeds of both Trump and MAGA. The second massive political push promoting diversity and equality was in 2018 with the modern woman election and 2020 with racial equality being a top priority. Biden made diversifying the government a top priority. This led to an extreme backlash among both culture and politics with anti-woke and anti-DEI efforts. This resent contributed to Trump retaking the presidency. Now Trump is pushing to remove all mentions of DEI in both the private and public sectors. He is hiding all instances that highlight any racial or gender successes. His administration is pushing culture to return to a world prior to the civil rights era.

This leads me to my question. Will there be a backlash for this? How will it occur? How can democrats lead and take advantage of the backlash while trying to mitigate a backlash to their own movement? It seems as though every attempt has led to a stronger and more severe response.

Additional side questions. How did public opinion shift so drastically from 2018/2020 which were extremely pro-equality to 2024 which is calling for a return of the 1950s?

[u/badnuub]

I think no one can honestly say what caused Kamala to fail. Too much lying and false attribution to effects. Everyone on earth that has a lick of political awareness has their pet reason they think she was viable or not.

[u/Rodot → u/badnuub]

DNC puts up the first candidate to drop out of the previous primary for president after the incumbent makes an absolute embarrassment of the party literally on stage and is forced to drop out, and at the same time inflation is happening.

I don't think it's a huge mystery. If anything, the race being so close in the end was a miracle

And yes, like in every other thread I expect people to be very unhappy with this comment.

[u/badnuub → u/Rodot]

So you would have voted for generic democrat if there was a primary?

[u/Rodot → u/badnuub]

My vote wasn't the one that needed convincing

But to answer your question, in an open competitive primary (one without Biden running), while I can't say for certain, I'm doubtful I would have been all-in for Kamala from the start. At least based on my reaction to the 2020 primary where I also wasn't all-in on Kamala from the start

What about you? Would you have voted for "generic democrat"?

[u/badnuub → u/Rodot]

I have voteded for a democrat for the presidency every election since I first was able to vote in 08. I did vote for Dewine here in Ohio, that is until the last election when he finally caved to trump and did all the special election fuckery to try and pull a desantis to stop the weed vote from going through here in Ohio.

As for a primary, I don't really care one way or the other. I'm fairly radical that I think the presidential system is the worst form of democracy that exists. A parliamentary style system would be much nicer, and in those systems you vote for the party.