Opinion | It Isn't That Easy to Just Give People What They Want

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : In an email, Teixeira addressed affirmative action:
56% : "In terms of affirmative action, neo-universalism would agree with the original need and purpose of affirmative action following the legal dismantling of racial and gender discrimination," Halpin wrote in an email:
54% : The latest evidence comes from the deep blue state of California which defeated an effort to reinstate race and gender preferences in public education, employment and contracting by an overwhelming 57-43 margin.
53% : Should Democrats support and defend gender and race-based affirmative action policies?
51% : As President Obama once put it: 'We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who has struggled more,' There has always been a strong case for class-based affirmative action which is perhaps worth revisiting rather than doubling down on race-based affirmative action.
45% : For instance, "defund the police" and "abolish ICE" are deeply connected to a story of the police and ICE as white supremacist institutions that oppress communities of color.
44% : Shor observes that "We've ended up in a situation where white liberals are more left wing than Black and Hispanic Democrats on pretty much every issue: taxes, health care, policing, and even on racial issues or various measures of 'racial resentment', " before adding, "So as white liberals increasingly define the party's image and messaging, that's going to turn off nonwhite conservative Democrats and push them against us."

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