I’ve maintained the establishment dems playbook has moved on from performative identity politics to identity schadenfreude, which now defines the anti-immigration shift of the dems

The point is to compartmentalize and silo whole demographics off from one another using crude divide and conquer rhetoric for the sake of two goals; first to appeal to white American suburbanites and their perennial dislike for anyone with a skintone darker than uncooked pizza dough (the Schumer strategy but explicitly racialized) and second to isolate the organizationally minded members of any given demographic by anchoring them to the belief that only their own demographics can be viable targets of organizing; blasting indirect divisive rhetoric like “Let THEM pick cotton, instead” is only the most visible of the tactics being used. It’s a total non-starter in terms of fostering solidarity and the overall point is to create resentment to forestall organizing by left orgs

This rhetorical strategy is born right out of the anti-Palestine hysteria of the DNC, while Sanders/AOC sheepdog desperate radicals back into the Democratic Party, this trap is what’s waiting for them