Dennis Prager argues that progressives abandoned their focus on everyday policies for identity politics and social justice rhetoric after 2020. He says the Democratic Party now caters to college-educated urban voters with programs like student-loan forgiveness while adopting a condescending tone toward non-college-educated Americans.
The progressives are part of the problem now. They were once focused on policies that improve people's lives, promising to be unbought and uncompromisable. But after the summer of 2020, that rhetoric all but faded away. They've become compromised by the social justice language and divisive identity politics that now dominate the entire Democratic ecosystem. Here's the sad truth: the Democratic Party has lost its way entirely. They mostly speak to the college-educated, the urban and affluent, in their language. Their tone is condescending and paternalistic. They peddle giveaways to the college-educated, like student loan forgiveness plans that disproportionately help their base. Snubbing the majority of the country without a 4-year degree, and then offer no tangible plans for true reform.
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