As you liberals shelter nervously in your mental health spaces I have a suggestion to help pass the time: Learn from the Enemy. The Nazis, to be specific. They will tell you where you went wrong, dear liberals.

First there is Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. In his Concept of the Political he is trying to understand our modern world. Here is how I interpret him:

The Political is Friend vs. Enemy, determined by Force.

The Moral is Good vs. Evil, determined by Persuasion.

The Economic is Useful vs. Harmful, determined by Prices.

The Aesthetic is Beautiful vs. Ugly, determined by Seeing.

Let me be clear: the world is infinitely more complex than that. Still, “make things as simple as possible, but no simpler,” said Guess Who.

The reason I bring up Carl Schmitt is to help analyze the post-election issue salad put out by co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority Ruy Teixeira in the Free Press. Here is the 16-Point Plan he thinks Democrats should be pitching in the future (ruthlessly compressed and revised by me):

“Equality of opportunity,” not “outcome;” restore patriotism; “discrimination and racism are… bad,” but not the whole story; ditto “racial achievement gaps;” “calling out white[s]” for bias “is not right or fair;” legal, not illegal........

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