I've already written off the Democratic Party as a lost cause. I think it has to be destroyed rather than reformed. If there was a moderate or centrist coalition trying to beat back progressive overreach I might support. But it's deeply depressing to watch moderates and centrists compromise with the far left and stay in the big tent.

What bothers me most about all this is that I am a liberal. I think structural racism is real, that historically disadvantaged groups have faced unique challenges, and that broadly speaking one of the things we should do with tax dollars is try to address long standing social and economic inequities.

But I don't support forced transformation of society through DEI regimes, the attacks on Western values and the dismissal of our civilization as settler colonialism, attempts to make gender non-binary when clear majorities of people recognize biological differences between men and women, or economic reforms on socialist or communist principles that are not honest about who will pay for what and how.

It's a mad world when the Democratic Party insists on these identitarian and economic changes that an earlier generation would have said are un American, and that will never be accepted by ordinary people.