I don’t think anyone is saying that the sporadic use of the word “Latinx” moves huge numbers of votes.

It’s an *example* of how social justice concepts can end up being out of touch with the views of some of its intended constituency.
It’s not even the end of the world to trade white college grads’ votes for Latino ones — it makes the senate map less unfavorable and improves the midterm turnout situation.

But that’s not the story progressives were telling themselves about American politics in 2020.
An ethnic politics example on the other side would be perhaps at some point Republicans should consider that tripling down on Israel hawk stuff is not actually addressing Jewish Americans’ doubts about them and they are listening to the wrong people.
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