Establishment Dems’ obsession w/ uniting w/ GOP—an obsession Republicans don’t share at all—is still fundamentally about whiteness & a need to redeem the white identity politics that have shaped the GOP since late 70s. This has always been what Biden’s 2020 candidacy represented.

Things are constantly framed as Dems v Repubs in this society but the politics of this nation are always fundamentally about the white power structure v Black freedom & enfranchisement. The power establishment is still overwhelmingly white & COVID-19 deaths r overwhelmingly Black

Even when speaking on issue of ppl forced to vote in person during pandemic b/c no alternatives are provided, it’s still fundamentally about race. It’s not simply that it impacts “dem voters”, it’s specifically Black voters, the same group always targeted for disenfranchisement.

To frame this as being about partisanship & not racism is to ignore US history. The central issue is/has always been white society’s unwillingness to grant equal citizenship to Black Americans, even in times & places where Dems were considered to be the white man’s party.

The Democratic and Republican parties are both historically white institutions. One has been racially integrated since the Civil Rights Movement (more so among the voter base than the leadership) and the other became a white reactionary party in response to integration.

This ongoing conflict about “bipartisanship” and how to achieve it between a racially integrated political party & a white nationalist one is entirely about resolving the internal conflicts of the white power structure. It has nothing to do w/ the conditions of BIPoC & oppression

I know y’all want to put a nice bow on things and keep it moving, but I’m telling you that’s not going to happen—not because of twitter commentary, but because of reality.