You can't be surprised that a group responds defensively when targeted. it happens evertime with every group. How about we stop targeting groups? The problem with that is that liberals have made identity politics the lynchpin of almost every aspect of their policy stances.
Certainly, conservatives do it at times. They share the human flaw as well. But Cons haven't done it to nearly to the same degree, and much of time these days when they are doing it, it is in response to being targeted first.
Perhaps we can all agree to just stop it, and to call it out when we see it? Curly's point is that the Dems can't really do this without losing their loosely held, heterogenous coalition of disparate groups.
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