Racial Essentialism and the 2020 Election

We should think of America’s divisions more in terms of class and ideology, and less in terms of race

A Black Lives Matter demonstrator in Washington, DC, November 14, 2020 (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

I am not a fan of MSNBC. Like a lot of leftists, I find the network almost as annoying as centrist liberals and their Never Trump allies find Fox News and OANN. Given the choice, I’m far more likely to listen to Chapo Trap…