Matt Bai of The Washington Post gets it right:
I woke up this morning hoping that the American left might now have a debate about what Americanism means to them — beyond policing pronouns and categorizing grievances. It ought to be clear that voters (and not only White voters) are tired of being lectured about societal inequities as their finances grow more precarious and the border less secure. (Kamala Harris wisely avoided all that, but she couldn’t outrun her party’s focus on trans rights and fighting other forms of oppression.) Maybe Democrats can find a way to their own kind of nationalism — one that champions the American idea rather than ceaselessly harping on its failures.
Read the entire piece here.