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I’ve had some time to think about the infighting inside the Texas Democratic Party and the increasingly shameless attempts by Crockett’s campaign to tear down the opposition. What’s becoming clear to me is that this isn’t just petty campaign drama; it’s a symptom of a much larger coalition shift underway in the Democratic Party. Crockett and Allred’s attacks on James Talarico rely heavily on identity-politics framing, including accusations of racism and the suggestion that Talarico has crossed some unforgivable moral Rubicon. Truthfully, this kind of attack (even if based on the same level of unsubstantiated rumors) would have been a death knell in the peak years of Woke 1.0. And, sure, part of this is likely tactical. Crockett is trailing Talarico in the polls and can’t match his fundraising. But I think it also reflects anxiety from parts of the old Democratic coalition as they watch the ground shift beneath them. The emerging Democratic coalition will be more ethnically and economically diverse, but less captive to identity politics. It will include people of color and Hispanic voters alongside a growing bloc of suburban white voters. It will reclaim American iconography and openly embrace things long ceded to the right: Christianity, patriotism, the flag, the Constitution. I think that causes stress for some people. But what they’re clinging to didn’t survive 2024. It’s dead for good. The Democratic Party is changing, and the old version isn’t coming back.

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