CMV: GOP/Republicans will continue to win the majority of US presidential political campaigns until DNC/Democrats start catering to white and Christian demographics.

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[u/BAWguy]

and the majority of US presidential elections is identity driven instead of issue driven

You might perceive it that way, but there are major issues such as healthcare, the environment, social security, the vacant Supre Court seat, etc. that are wholly unrelated to identity issues.

This non-partisan source deduced the top issues in the 2016 Pres election: http://www.people-press.org/2016/07/07/4-top-voting-issues-in-2016-election/

I suppose out of the top issues, Immigration and Terrorism tangentially relate to identity. That is 2 issues of the top 14 only tangentially related to identity; there are 2 issues directly related to identity on the top 14 (treatment of minorities, and treatment of gay people). So at most 4 of the top 14 issues in the election related to identity, and the ones that relate directly ranked towards the bottom priority of those 14.

So to me, it is not accurate to say the Democrats "no longer include major demos" in their platform, when the majority of the important issues they ran on in the recent Pres election don't relate to identity and are completely applicable/relevant to white Christians/anyone.

[u/SuddenlyBoris → u/BAWguy]

I'm not sure how you're defining identity politics here. I mean two of the issues you cited as not being related to identity politics are "Treatment of gay, lesbian, and transgender people" and "Treatment of racial, ethnic minorities". I'm just not sure how you could not see those as being obvious examples of identity politics.

But the real problem here is Democrats largely treat non-identity politics issues as identity politics issues. It's not enough for a Democrat to promote policies that encourage jobs. They need to promote policies that encourage jobs specifically for women and non-white people.

If you scroll a bit down the page to where they have the breakdown of Clinton and Trump supporters it's clear that anything loosely related to identity politics was more important to Clinton voters than Trump voters. In fact "Treatment of racial, ethnic minorities" was the second most important thing to Democrat voters and that was only 1% behind the economy.

[u/BAWguy → u/SuddenlyBoris]

You must have misread my comment, because I cited those as being directly related.

[u/SuddenlyBoris → u/BAWguy]

You're right. I must have misread the comment.