Ragtag Coalition of Leftism: Asians and Sharia Law
15th May 2012
For awhile now, I’ve been focusing on the so-called Ragtag Coalition of Leftist Identity Groups, a sort of parallel phenomenon to the proposed Sailer Strategy in which the Republican party ditches all pretenses and just goes for the white vote, exclusively. The Ragtag Coalition refers to the tenuous amalgamation of pet minority groups under the Democratic Party’s umbrella; Matt Yglesias alluded to this last year in saying, “Democrats are more and more seen as the party of non-whites.” The leftist coalition, which also includes organized labor and single mothers, works as a twofold strategy – ideological and practical. The ideological narrative focuses on white men as the primary enemy; all enmity, encouraged on liberal blogs and Ivory Tower scholarship, must be directed out of the group towards this nefarious entity. It also works as a practical voting strategy; the collective group has the cumulative numbers to combat evil white conservatives in the voting booth.
In reality though, the coalition is made up of groups who really want nothing to do with each other. So the professional left has a rather volatile situation on their hands – how to keep everyone focused on the right enemy (white men) and not “offend” the other leftist pet groups. In what I foresee as a never-ending struggle to maintain harmony, here’s two more examples of why the ragtag coalition has problems.