From the left: Dems Need ‘Bigots,’ Too

“Some people don’t want a tent so big that it includes bigots,” explains Matthew Yglesias at The Argument of a “common sentiment on the left.” For Democrats, “this ethic of shunning is counterproductive and unworkable.” The progressive coalition hasn’t grown because “the range of views that one is allowed to hold or express” as a Democrat “has gotten smaller.” So “fewer people are in it” and “Republicans are winning more elections.” Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this in his desire “to make common cause with low-income white people,” who had “been prevented from joining forces due to bigotry.” The “indifference to the plight of nonwhite Americans was, in fact, racist” and counter-productive. “So, yes, I do want a tent so large it contains a l

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