People care about race and class. Policymakers should be speaking to both.
“I think that folks like Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are picking [the messaging style] up because they understand that there's potential for this to be a winning narrative,” said Causten Rodriguez-Wollerman, a strategist with Demos, a left-leaning research group that hosted the Netroots training session on intersectionality.
“I think we’ve demonstrated that it’s better than the status-quo language the left has been using,” added Rodriguez-Wollerman. “And I think the reason they’re identifying it as a winning message is because it’s clear that Trump won by stoking racial fears and we have to address those racial fears to win moving forward.”