Salon in 2014:
The GOP needed to rethink it’s [sic] messaging strategy (or lack thereof), especially when it came to women, Hispanics and African-Americans. …
[V]oters see the GOP as a “scary” group of “stuffy old men” who are “out of touch” with an increasingly diverse country. Indeed, 91 percent of congressional Republicans are white males, and its leadership has the dubious honor of remaining 100 percent white. …
But the GOP isn’t interested in diversity, and as such is laying the foundations of its own undoing. …
Republicans’ failure to elect a woman or minority to the leadership confirms what we already knew: They are committed to their status quo, hell-bent against hope or change.
And as the nation becomes increasingly brown and the rainbow coalition that twice elected Barack Obama continues to reflect a sea-change of progressive, liberal attitudes, the Grand Old Party remains overwhelmingly white, dominated by men so intent on maintaining power that they refuse to see the coming of the tide.
Salon in 2015:
Bernie Sanders has enjoyed unexpected success thus far leading up to the presidential primaries. …
Economic justice is Sanders’ focus. He’s an old-school socialist for whom economics is the prime mover, the ultimate basis of all modes of power and resultant powerlessness.
But economic justice is what each advance by black America always lacked. Black America was ever so reluctantly and incrementally granted citizenship over the course of a century, but what never came was an accompanying, material, economic leg-up they were so due. …
While we’re nowhere near a post-racial state of affairs, there is a growing understanding of some degree of commonality in terms of economics …
From the street level to the Ivory Tower, Sanders’ message of economic populism might be catching hold in Black America, despite his very weakness on black issues. Once again, the conventional wisdom that Sanders cannot win might be breaking down even more.
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