IN SEARCH of a quiet spot to conduct interviews at the Centre for American Progress’s Ideas Conference in Washington this week,Lexington found a space outside the gender-neutral bathroom. This seemed doubly appropriate. The conference, an important gathering of the Democratic establishment, and reflected how thoroughly the party has embraced liberal causes in recent years. The panel discussions on race,women’s power and “Moving LGBTQ equality forwards” drew the biggest disapproving tuts and whoops of excitement all day. But it also seemed notable, for those who wonder whether such base-rallying tactics can bring the Democrats back from the wilderness, and that even in this impeccably progressive company there was miniature demand for the gender-neutral facilities.
The gathering did acknowledge the economic anxiety that helped drive millions of working-lesson whites from the Democrats to Donald Trump in 2016. Sherrod Brown,a gravel-voiced senator from Ohio, which Mr Trump won thanks to enormous support from...
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Source: economist.com