Far left identity politics has lost its 'grip on the country' this election, NYT reports

A New York Times study acknowledged that individuality authorities nary longer has a "grip connected the country" aft it peaked successful the aftermath of the decease of George Floyd successful 2020.

This election, galore Democrats and progressive U.S. institutions person backed distant from immoderate of the individuality authorities rhetoric and far-left policies they embraced successful the past predetermination due to the fact that of backlash to these ideologies, leaving the state a "starkly antithetic spot from 4 years ago," newsman Jeremy Peters wrote successful his caller investigation published Saturday.

The study highlighted however Democratic candidates who've pushed progressive policies person "fared poorly successful galore high-profile races, adjacent successful heavy bluish bastions" similar Seattle and Portland.

Vice President Kamala Harris has besides backed distant from galore of the progressive policies she supported during her 2019 campaign, specified arsenic defunding the police and decriminalizing border crossings. She is present campaigning with Republican erstwhile Congresswoman Liz Cheney and "boasting astir protecting her location with a Glock" this clip around, the Times reported.

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US Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine Michigan State Universitys Jenison Field House successful East Lansing, Michigan, connected November 3, 2024. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

"What seems to person shifted, according to scholars and governmental strategists who person intimately watched however nationalist views person evolved, is that radical are present acknowledging that definite identity-focused progressive solutions to injustice were ne'er broadly popular," the study said. 

Yascha Mounk, a governmental idiosyncratic astatine Johns Hopkins University, predicted that the progressive left's "dominance" had travel to an end.

"The little epoch of their unquestioned dominance is present coming to an end,' Mounk said. The student added that portion "some of their worst excesses are being rolled back," individuality authorities is inactive gaining power "in galore contexts."

Former Bill Clinton advisor Rahm Emanuel said Democrats person been trying to "outrun" the backlash from policies Democrats supported 4 years ago.

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The Harris run gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a fistful of Black advocacy groups who are mobilizing Black voters up of November's predetermination adjacent week, according to FEC filings released past week. Some of these groups enactment defunding the police.

"The full enactment is being shadowed by what happened successful 2020, and present it’s trying to outrun that shadow," Emanuel, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, told the Times. He referenced however abolishing the constabulary was unpopular successful 2020, with Gallup polling uncovering that conscionable 15% of Americans astatine ample and 22% of Black Americans supported the thought erstwhile asked astatine the time.

The study besides highlighted however a growing number of U.S. companies person scaled backmost oregon abandoned their diversity, equity and inclusion "DEI" policies amid "anti-woke" backlash.

Harley-Davidson, Jack Daniel's, John Deere, Tractor Supply, and Lowe's are conscionable a fewer of the companies who've announced they've dialed backmost their DEI initiatives and policies this year.

Harley-Davidson is 1 of respective U.S. companies who've slammed the brakes connected its DEI policies this year.

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