"Already, influential Democrats have shown a strong interest in [Kamala] Harris, with prominent former Clinton donors meeting privately with Harris in the Hamptons. The San Francisco Chronicle called her the Democrats’ 'Great Blue Hope', and a Guardian writer suggested that the combination of Harris’s race and her centrist platform 'could be the party’s solution to its identity crisis'.”
#BriahnaJoyGray, 2017
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/08/how-identity-became-a-weapon-against-the-left
In hindsight, it's easy to see where the Dems went wrong.