Berkeley professor urges Democrats to abandon traditional racial politics [Video]

University of California, Berkeley professor Jerel Ezell argued that Democrats should stop relying on traditional racial politics to win elections.

In a Politico opinion piece published Friday, Ezell noted that Democrats, despite their continued reliance on Black, Latino, Indigenous and Asian voters, found themselves surprised by President Donald Trump’s gains with some of those groups in the 2024 presidential election. 

“The 2024 presidential election left the Democrats’ multiracial coalition in tatters,” Ezell wrote. “Nonwhite people voted in higher percentages for Trump in 2024 than they did in 2020, in some cases by double-digit increases. Democrats are now in the thick of a come-to-Jesus reckoning over these losses, and it should begin with this obvious truth: There is no deep cultural, social, economic or political linkage between Black, Latino, Indigenous and Asian Americans — at least not one that can be leveraged by the party for votes.”

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