Thinking a little more about the same WSJ article that I linked to immediately below, the coming intraparty debate among Dems, in the wake of yesterday’s disastrous election results for the party, will eventually come down to a struggle between what type of progressive politics will prevail within the Democratic Party: old-fashioned class-oriented progressive politics, as advocated by people like Bernie Sanders, who think Dems need to stress economic issues that appeal more to working-class voters, versus identity-politics progressives, as advocated by many in academia and other college-educated/suburban types, who mostly view politics through the lens of race, gender and sexual-orientation, etc. etc. …

Neither side is 100 percent right or wrong. It’s not a case of one or the other. But yesterday’s results clearly show that the corniest of all corny lines is true: It’s the economy, stupid, and that means a greater emphasis on economic/class issues and de-emphasis of the more radical aspects of identity-politics/cultural issues. … When you get down to it, moderate-liberals and Bernie progressives have more in common than they realize: Dems really do need to focus more on economic and class issues.