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Is the American Democratic Party Liberal?

I think the Republican Party can never be the party of universality. If you don't think of yourself as an isolated subject, then you're not going to vote for them. But I think the problem is that the American Democratic Party is liberal in the real sense of the term. That it takes the isolated individual as the starting point and not the collective as a starting point. And so, like, let's take the movement for Black Lives Matter, right? Like that's not a particularist movement. You know, like Biden, as he's taking the, accepting the nominee, or the victory last night, he lists off all these particular groups but there's a way to talk about

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