Originally Posted by
ep1c_fail
You're living in denial: the abject degeneration of liberalism is what precipitated Trump's election in the first place. It takes years of political erosion before an electorate will reach to a character like Trump for solutions. This didn't just start in 2016 and it isn't going to end in 2020. At the same time that middle America is suffering the effects of the financial crisis, the liberal elite is busy indulging in the poisonous, divisive and alienating politics of identity, entertaining Utopian fantasies and shouting empty slogans. While you're busy making excuses, Trump is preparing to be re-elected.
Btw, there's quite evidence of that.
Now, given that the range in those charts is 1980-2018, we might want to look more closely.
Eg:
So in 2015, upper class White liberals in the media/academia/tech go full on intersectionality for some reason. It becomes their religion. There's a good chance it costs them the election and they blamed the shortcoming of their religion on Russia.
Nonetheless, if Katsumoto and Vanoi think it's fine as the Democratic core ideology, they can go for it.